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Calastacus Faxon, 1893 
AphiaID: 107070

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Axiidea (Infraorder) > Axiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Calastacus stilirostris Faxon, 1895
Parent Axiidae Huxley, 1879
Synonymised
taxa
  Calocaris (Calastacus) Faxon, 1893 (rank change)
Sources  original description: Faxon, W., 1893. Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer ”Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. VI. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea.— Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 24: 149-220.  [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: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Webber, W.R.; Ahyong.S. (2009). Decapoda (Crustacea). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Calastacus angulatus Coelho, 1973
Species Calastacus colpos Kensley, 1996
Species Calastacus crosnieri Kensley & Chan, 1998
Species Calastacus formosus Komai, Lin & Chan, 2010
Species Calastacus inflatus Komai, Lin & Chan, 2009
Species Calastacus laevis de Saint Laurent, 1972
Species Calastacus laurentae Ngoc-Ho, 2011
Species Calastacus mexicanus Kensley, 1996
Species Calastacus myalup Poore & Collins, 2009
Species Calastacus rostriserratus Andrade & Baez, 1977
Species Calastacus spinosus Coelho, 1973
Species Calastacus stilirostris Faxon, 1895
Species Calastacus vicina (Coelho & Ramos-Porto, 1991)

Species Calastacus euophthalmus de Man, 1905 accepted as Calaxius euophthalmus (De Man, 1905)
Species Calastacus felix Alcock & Anderson, 1899 accepted as Calaxiopsis felix (Alcock, 1899)
Species Calastacus investigatoris Anderson, 1896 accepted as Lophaxius investigatoris (Anderson, 1896)
Species Calastacus longispinis McArdle, 1901 accepted as Calocarides longispinis (McArdle, 1901)
Environment marine
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107070
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
2006-09-07 06:51:43Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-05-20 12:31:05Z  changed  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G.; Türkay, M. (2013). Calastacus Faxon, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107070 on 2013-05-21
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