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Centromedon G.O. Sars, 1891 
AphiaID: 101599

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Lysianassoidea (Superfamily) > Uristidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Uristidae Hurley, 1963
Sources  basis of record: Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 295-308 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

identification resource: Olerod R. (1980). A taxonomic study of the lysianassid genus Centromedon G.O. Sars (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Zoologica Scripta, 9, 1, 35-52; figs. 1-124;. [details]

identification resource: Horton, T.; Thurston, M. (2011). Centromedon zoe (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae), a new deep-water scavenger species from the North Atlantic, with a key to the genus Centromedon. Zootaxa, 2869: 54–62, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02869p062.pdf [details]

All child
taxa
[hide all]		 Species Centromedon calcaratus G.O. Sars, 1879
Species Centromedon laevis (Bonnier, 1896)
Species Centromedon mediator (Barnard, 1962)
Species Centromedon pavor (Barnard, 1966)
Species Centromedon productus (Goes, 1866)
Species Centromedon pumilus (Lilljeborg, 1865)
Species Centromedon typhlops (Sars G.O., 1879)
Species Centromedon zoe Horton & Thurston, 2011

Species Centromedon rusanovi accepted as Tryphosella rusanovi Goes, 1866
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101599
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan-Santini, Denise
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  checked  Costello, Mark
2006-09-07 06:51:43Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2007-02-10 20:29:11Z  changed  De Broyer, Claude
2010-09-20 08:56:19Z  changed  Lowry, Jim
2012-10-10 13:37:46Z  changed  Horton, Tammy
  
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  Citation: Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Costello, M.; Bellan-Santini, D. (2013). Centromedon G.O. Sars, 1891. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101599 on 2013-05-25
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