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Jaera albifrons Leach, 1814 
AphiaID: 118715

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Asellota (Suborder) > Janiroidea (Superfamily) > Janiridae (Family) > Jaera (Genus)
Status alternate representation
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Jaera (Jaera) albifrons Leach, 1814
Rank Species
Parent Jaera Leach, 1814
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: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Rappé, G. (1989). Annoted checklist of the marine and brackish-water Isopoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of Belgium, in: Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.) (1989). Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". pp. 165-168 (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch witkoppissebed  [details]
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Subspecies Jaera albifrons albifrons Leach, 1814 represented as Jaera (Jaera) albifrons albifrons Leach, 1814 (alternate representation)
Subspecies Jaera albifrons syei Bocquet, 1950 represented as Jaera syei Bocquet, 1950 (alternate representation)
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Muuga harbour (Port of Tallinn, Gulf of Finland) [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostduinkerke [details]
Oostende [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of Norway  [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
Notes  Distribution: upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, Southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands), lower North Shore, western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; southwestern slope of NL.; Cobscook Bay [details]

Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118715
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Jaera albifrons Leach, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118715 on 2013-05-23
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