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Nyctiphanes Sars, 1883 
AphiaID: 110677

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: Sars, G.O. (1883). Preliminary notices on the Schizopoda of H.M.S. Challenger Expedition Forh. Videnskabsselsk. Kristiania 7: 1-43 (look up in IMIS[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 Nyctiphanes australis G. O. Sars, 1883
Species Nyctiphanes capensis Hansen, 1911
Species Nyctiphanes couchii (Bell, 1853)
Species Nyctiphanes simplex Hansen, 1911

Species Nyctiphanes africana accepted as Nyctiphanes capensis Hansen, 1911
Species Nyctiphanes couchi (Bell, 1853) accepted as Nyctiphanes couchii (Bell, 1853)
Species Nyctiphanes latifrons accepted as Nyctiphanes couchii (Bell, 1853)
Species Nyctiphanes norvegicus G.O. Sars, 1883 accepted as Meganyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars, 1857)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110677
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2006-09-26 06:56:50Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-03-02 17:11:18Z  checked  Siegel, Volker
  
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  Citation: Siegel, V. (2013). Nyctiphanes Sars, 1883. 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=110677 on 2013-05-19
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