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Balssia Kemp, 1922 
AphiaID: 107029

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Caridea (Infraorder) > Palaemonoidea (Superfamily) > Palaemonidae (Family) > Pontoniinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Amphipalaemon gasti Balss, 1921 (type by monotypy)
Parent Pontoniinae Kingsley, 1879
Sources  original description: Kemp, S., 1922. Notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum, XV. Pontoniinae.— Records of the Indian Museum 24: 113-288, Plates 1-9. [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: 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 Balssia antipodarum Bruce, 2004
Species Balssia gasti (Balss, 1921)
Species Balssia noeli Bruce, 1998
Environment marine
Distribution Mediterranean Sea [details]
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107029
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
2006-09-06 06:55:51Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-09 09:49:35Z  checked  De Grave, Sammy
2011-11-17 06:25:12Z  changed  Fransen, Charles
  
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  Citation: Fransen, C.; De Grave, S.; Türkay, M. (2013). Balssia Kemp, 1922. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107029 on 2013-05-23
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