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Athelges Gerstaeker, 1862 
AphiaID: 118164

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Bopyridae (Family) > Athelginae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Athelges fullodes Gerstaecker, 1862 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Athelginae Codreanu & Codreanu, 1956
Synonymised
taxa
  Athelgue Hesse, 1861 (vernacular name, not available)
Botryllofer Dalyell, 1851 (suppressed by ICZN)
Prosthète Hesse, 1861 (venacular name & synonym)
Prosthetus Gerstaecker, 1862 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Gerstaecker, A. (1862) Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen im Gebiete der Entomologie wahrend des Jahres 1861. Wiegmanns Archiv für Naturgeschichte 28 (2): 273-571. [details]

basis of record: Barnard, K.H.. 1955. Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum 43:1-107, figs. 1-53. (xii-1955) [details]

basis of record: Markham, J.C. (2001). Isopoda, Epicaridea, Bopyridae, 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. 322 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details]

additional source: Markham, J. C. (1977) Athelges Gerstaecker, 1862 (Crustacea, Isopoda): proposed conservation. Z.N.(S.) 2207. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 34(2): 126-129. [details]

status source: Melville, R. V. (1982) Opinion 1229 Athelges Gerstaecker, 1862 (Crustacea, Isopoda): Conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 39(4): 238-240. [details]

from synonym: Hesse, [C. E.] (1861) Recherches sur les Crustaces rares ou nouveaux des cotes de France. Memoire sur deux nouveaux genres de l'ordre des crustaces isopodes sedentaires et sur les especes types de ces genres. Annales des Sciences Naturales, Zoologie (4) 15: 91- 116. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dalyell, J.G.. 1851. The powers of the Creator displayed in the Creation: observations on life amidst the various forms of the humbler tribes of animated nature, with practical comments and illustrations. 1:1-268, pls. 1-70. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Athelges aegyptius Codreanu, Codreanu & Pike, 1965
Species Athelges ankistron Markham, 2010
Species Athelges bilobus G. O. Sars, 1898
Species Athelges caudalis Barnard, 1955
Species Athelges cladophorus Gerstaecker, 1862
Species Athelges guitarra Giard & Bonnier, 1890
Species Athelges intermediaire (Hesse, 1876)
Species Athelges lacertosi Pike, 1961
Species Athelges paguri (Rathke, 1843)
Species Athelges pelagosae Babic, 1912
Species Athelges prideauxii Giard & Bonnier, 1890
Species Athelges takanoshimensis Ishii, 1914
Species Athelges tenuicaudis G. O. Sars, 1898

Species Athelges cardonae Kossmann in Rodriquez y Femenias, 1886 accepted as Parathelges cardonae R. & M. Codreanu in Codreanu, 1968
Species Athelges fullodes Gerstaecker, 1862 accepted as Athelges paguri (Rathke, 1843)
Species Athelges japonicus Shiino, 1958 accepted as Athelges takanoshimensis Ishii, 1914
Species Athelges neotenuicaudis Shyamasundari, Hanumantha Rao, Jalajakumari & Mary, 1993 accepted as Parathelges neotenuicaudis (Shyamasundari, Hanumantha Rao, Jalajakumari & Mary, 1993)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Feedingtype  parasite [details]
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118164
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Markham, John
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
2010-11-03 21:47:26Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2010-11-05 16:55:05Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2011-11-30 16:38:56Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M.; Markham, J. (2013). Athelges Gerstaeker, 1862. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118164 on 2013-05-21
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