WoRMS taxon details
Megalocercus Chun, 1887
AphiaID: 103364
AphiaID: 103364
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Appendicularia (Class) > Copelata (Order) > Oikopleuridae (Family) > Oikopleurinae (Subfamily) > Labiata (Tribe) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Labiata Fenaux, 1993 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Appendicularia, 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. 356 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Fenaux, R., Q. Bone, and D. Deibel. 1998. Appendicularian distribution and zoogeography, p. 251-264. In q. Bone [ed.], The biology of pelagic tunicates. Oxford University Press. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Megalocercus abyssorum Chun, 1887 Species Megalocercus huxleyi Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905 Species Megalocercus altanticus Lohmann, 1914 accepted as Megalocercus abyssorum Chun, 1887 Species Megalocercus diegensis Essenberg, 1926 accepted as Stegosoma magnum (Langerhans, 1880) Species Megalocercus megastoma Aida, 1907 accepted as Megalocercus huxleyi Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103364 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hopcroft, R. (2013). Megalocercus Chun, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103364 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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