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Spirontocaris spinus (Sowerby, 1805 [in Sowerby, 1804-1806]) 
AphiaID: 107533

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Caridea (Infraorder) > Alpheoidea (Superfamily) > Hippolytidae (Family) > Spirontocaris (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Spirontocaris Spence Bate, 1888
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer spinus Sowerby, 1805 [in Sowerby, 1804-1806]
Hippolyte sowerbaei Leach, 1817 [in Leach, 1815-1875]
Hippolyte spinus
Sowerbyus spinus Hoek, 1887
Spirontocaris spina laevidens Kobjakova, 1936a
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]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Holthuis, L.B., 1980b. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 1 - Shrimps and Prawns of the World. An Annotated Catalogue of Species of Interest to Fisheries.— FAO Fisheries Synopsis 125 (Vol. 1): i-xvii, 1-271. [details]

additional source: Squires, W.A. 1976. The birds of New Brunswick. Second Edition. The New Brunswick Museum. Saint John. 221 p. [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [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]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Holthuis, L.B.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (1993). Coastal Shrimps and Prawns. Synopses of the British Fauna 15. Second Edition. [details]

from synonym: Hoek, P.P.C., 1887. Mededeeling betreffende een parasiet van Sowerbuys spinus.— Tijdschrift der Nederlandse Dierkundige Vereeniging (2) 1: 208-209.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Leach, W.E., 1815-1875. Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniæ; or Descriptions of such British species of the Linnean genus Cancer as have their eyes elevated on footstalks: 1-124, Plates 1-45. London. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Kobjakova, Z.I., 1936a. Zoogeographical review of the Decapoda fauna from the Okhotsk Sea and the Sea of Japan [in Russian].— Trudy Lendingradskogo Obschestva Estesvoipytatelei 65: 185-228. [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Swedish taggräka  [details]
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Subspecies Spirontocaris spinus intermedius Makarov, 1941 accepted as Spirontocaris intermedia Kobjakova, 1936
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Barents Sea [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
Faroe Islands [details]
Franz Jozef Land [details]
Greenland [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Iceland [details]
Ireland [details]
Jan Mayen [details]
Murmansk Coast [details]
North East Coast of England  [details]
North Pacific [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Norway [details]
Spitsbergen [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Sweden [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Atlantic [details]
West Coast of England [details]
West Scotland [details]
White Sea [details]
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (24 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (75 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
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  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]
Image 
Spirontocaris spinus
Spirontocaris spinus
added on 2011-02-19 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107533
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
2010-09-09 15:15:28Z  changed  De Grave, Sammy
  
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  Citation: De Grave, S.; Türkay, M. (2013). Spirontocaris spinus (Sowerby, 1805 [in Sowerby, 1804-1806]). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107533 on 2013-05-21
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