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Meganyctiphanes Holt & Tattersall, 1905 
AphiaID: 110674

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Euphausiacea (Order) > Euphausiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Euphausiidae Dana, 1852
Sources  original description: Holt, E.W.L. & W.M. Tattersall (1905) Schizopodous Crustacea from the north-east Atlantic slope. - Rep. Sea Inland Fish. Ireland, 1902-1903, pt. 2, app. 4: 99-152, 11 pls [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Euphausiacea, 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 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Mauchline, J. (1984). Euphausiid, stomatopod and leptostracan crustaceans: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 30. E.J. Brill; W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07471-6. vii, 91 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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 Species Meganyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars, 1857)

Species Meganyctiphanes calmani accepted as Meganyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars, 1857)
Environment marine
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110674
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2006-09-25 06:54:45Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-03-02 17:11:18Z  checked  Siegel, Volker
  
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  Citation: Siegel, V. (2013). Meganyctiphanes Holt & Tattersall, 1905. In: Siegel, V. (Ed) (2013). World Euphausiacea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110674 on 2013-06-20
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