WoRMS taxon details
Melicertus Rafinesque, 1814
AphiaID: 106816
AphiaID: 106816
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Dendrobranchiata (Suborder) > Penaeoidea (Superfamily) > Penaeidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Melicertus tigrinus Rafinesque, 1814 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Penaeidae Rafinesque, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Rafinesque, C.S. (1814). Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814; ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palerme. Pp. 1-55. Also lithoprint facsimile re-edition in 1948 by Peter Smith, The Murray Printing Company, Wakefield, Massachusetts 55pp; plates. [details] basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, 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. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Pérez Farfante, I. & B. Kensley, 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera.— Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle 175: 1-233. [details] additional source: De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Melicertus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1811) Species Melicertus hathor (Burkenroad, 1959) Species Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775) Species Melicertus latisulcatus (Kishinouye, 1896) Species Melicertus longistylus (Kubo, 1943) Species Melicertus marginatus (Randall, 1840) Species Melicertus plebejus (Hess, 1865) Species Melicertus similis Chanda & Bhattacharya, 2002 Species Melicertus tigrinus Rafinesque, 1814 accepted as Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106816 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: De Grave, S.; Türkay, M. (2013). Melicertus Rafinesque, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106816 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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