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Alitropus H. Milne-Edwards, 1840 
AphiaID: 118395

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Aegidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
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 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Aegidae White, 1850
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, 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. 315-321 (look up in IMIS[details]

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

additional source: Bruce N.L. (1983). Aegidae (Isopoda,Crustacea) from Australia with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Natural History, 17, 5, 757-788. [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]

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 Species Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840

Species Alitropus dimorphus Pillai, 1954 accepted as Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Species Alitropus foveolatus Schiƶdte & Meinert, 1879 accepted as Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Environment brackish, fresh
Link To ITIS
Note  Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Australia. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118395
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2006-09-05 06:52:51Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
2008-02-05 00:00:35Z  changed  Bruce, Niel L.
  
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  Citation: Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2013). Alitropus H. Milne-Edwards, 1840. 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=118395 on 2013-05-18
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