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Politolana Bruce, 1981 
AphiaID: 118405

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Cirolanidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Politolana polita (Stimpson, 1853) (type by original designation)
Parent Cirolanidae Dana, 1852
Sources  original description: Bruce, N. L. (1981) Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Australia: Diagnoses of Cirolana Leach, Metacirolana Nierstrasz, Neocirolana Hale, Anopsilana Paulian & Deboutteville, and three new genera - Natatolana, Politolana, and Cartetolana. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 945-966. [details]

basis of record: Riseman, S. and Brusca, R. C. (2002) Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of Politolana Bruce, 1981 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134(1): 57-140. [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: 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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Politolana concharum (Stimpson, 1853)
Species Politolana crosnieri Bruce, 1996
Species Politolana dasyprion Bruce, 1991
Species Politolana eximia (Hansen, 1890)
Species Politolana haneyi Riseman & Brusca, 2002
Species Politolana impostor Riseman & Brusca, 2002
Species Politolana impressa (Harger, 1883)
Species Politolana microphthalma (Hoek, 1882)
Species Politolana obtusispina (Kensley, 1975)
Species Politolana polita (Stimpson, 1853)
Species Politolana sanchezi Frutos & Sorbe, 2010
Species Politolana tricarinata Riseman, Pires-Vanin & Brusca, 2001
Species Politolana wickstenae Wetzer, Delaney & Brusca, 1987
Environment marine
Link To ITIS
Image 
Politolana polita - group
[image from typetaxon]
Politolana polita - group
added on 2012-04-19 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: checked by Bruce, Niel L. on 2012-09-14 12:06:25
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118405
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2006-09-27 07:06:07Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
2008-02-06 22:42:01Z  changed  Bruce, Niel L.
2010-05-19 23:17:29Z  changed  Bruce, Niel L.
  
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  Citation: Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2013). Politolana Bruce, 1981. 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=118405 on 2013-05-19
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