WoRMS taxon details
Spirontocaris spinus (Sowerby, 1805 [in Sowerby, 1804-1806]) AphiaID: 107533
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Multicrustacea (Superclass) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) >  Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Caridea (Infraorder) > Alpheoidea (Superfamily) > Thoridae (Family) > Spirontocaris (Genus) > Spirontocaris spinus (Species)
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| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Spirontocaris Spence Bate, 1888 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised names |
Cancer spinus Sowerby, 1805 [in Sowerby, 1804-1806]Hippolyte sowerbaei Leach, 1817 [in Leach, 1815-1875]Hippolyte spinusSowerbyus spinus Hoek, 1887Spirontocaris spina laevidens Kobjakova, 1936 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] [show all] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa (1) [show all] | Subspecies Spirontocaris spinus intermedius Makarov, 1941 accepted as Spirontocaris intermedia Kobjakova, 1936 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | From other sources
Barentsz SeaBarents Sea [details]Franz Jozef Land [details]Spitsbergen [details]Bay of Fundy Cobscook Bay [details]Canada Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Arctic part] [details]Gulf of Saint Lawrence Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]St. Lawrence Estuary [details]Hudson Strait Hudson Strait [details]Iceland Iceland [details]Ireland Ireland [details]Kattegat Kattegat [details]North Atlantic Ocean European waters (ERMS scope) [details]Faroe Islands [details]Gulf of Maine [details]North West Atlantic [details]North Pacific Ocean North Pacific [details]North Sea North Sea [details]Norway Norway [details]Norwegian Sea Jan Mayen [details]Skagerrak Skagerrak [details]Sweden Sweden [details]Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]United Kingdom North East Coast of England [details]West Coast of England [details]West Scotland [details]White Sea White Sea [details](no group) FAO fishing area 18 [details]Greenland [details]Murmansk Coast [details]West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Bopyroides sarsi Bonnier, 1900 (parasite)
Sylon challengeri Hoek, 1888 (parasite)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (32 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Shrimp Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes | From other sources
Distribution Western Atlantic: circumarctic from Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin and Greenland to Massachusetts Bay, including Cobscook Bay [details]Distribution Apparently absent from south and south-west coasts. [details]Habitat intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | ||||||||||
| Images | [show unreviewed] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107533 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: De Grave, S.; Türkay, M. (2010). Spirontocaris spinus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107533 on 2016-09-30 | |||||||||||
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