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Caecognathia stygia (Sars G.O., 1877) 
AphiaID: 118986

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Gnathiidae (Family) > Caecognathia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Caecognathia Dollfus, 1901
Parent Caecognathia Dollfus, 1901
Synonymised
taxa		  Anceus stygia G.O.Sars, 1877 (basionym)
 Gnathia stygia Sars, 1877 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Sars, G.O. (1877). Prodromus descriptionis crustaceorum et pycnogonidarum, quae in expeditione norvegica anno 1876, observavit G. O. Sars. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, Kristiania (Oslo) 2: 337-371. [details]

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: 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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Distribution type locality: North Atlantic [details]
Beaufort Sea [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Depth range: 535-246 [details]
Image 
Caecognathia stygia
Caecognathia stygia
added on 2011-01-04 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: checked by Brandt, Angelika on 2013-01-25 15:48:19
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118986
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
  
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  Citation: Schotte, M. (2013). Caecognathia stygia (Sars G.O., 1877). 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=118986 on 2013-05-21
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