WoRMS taxon details
Idotea balthica (Pallas, 1772)
AphiaID: 119039
AphiaID: 119039
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Valvifera (Suborder) > Idoteidae (Family) > Idotea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Idotea Fabricius, 1798 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Idotea (Stenosoma) pusilla Eichwald, 1842 (junior synonym) Idotea balthica stagnea Tinturier-Hamelin, 1960 (junior synonym) Idotea baltica Pallas, 1772 (misspelling) Idotea basteri Audouin, 1826 (junior synonym) Idotea sarsi Collinge, 1917 (junior synonym) Idotea tricuspidata Desmarest, 1825 (junior synonym) Idotea tridentata Latreille, 1806 (junior synonym) Idotea variegata Roux, 1830 (junior synonym) Oniscus balthica Pallas, 1772 (basionym) Oniscus tridens Scopoli, 1763 (junior synonym) Stenosoma irrorata Say, 1818 (junior synonym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Pallas, P. S. (1772) Spicilegia Zoologica, quibus novae imprimus et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur cura P.S. Pallas... 1767-1780 Berlin.* [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: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] additional source: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: 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] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] from synonym: Audouin V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches de crustaces de l'Egypte et de la Syrie, publiées par Jules-Cesar Savigny, membre de l'Inst.; offrant un exposé des caractères naturels des genres avec la disctinction des espèces. Description de l'Egypte;. Histoire naturelle, 1, 4, 77-98. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Latreille, P.A., 1806. Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum. Secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata. Tomus primus: i-xviii, 1-302. Amand Keonig, Bibliopolam, Parisiis et Argentorati. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Scopoli, J. A. (1763) Entomologica Carniolica, exhibens Insecta Carnioliae indigena, methodo Linneane distributa. Vienna. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Say, T., 1818. An account of the Crustacea of the United States, part 7.— Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1: 374-401. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Idotea balthica basteri (Pallas, 1772) Subspecies Idotea balthica stagnea Tinturier-Hamelin, 1960 accepted as Idotea balthica (Pallas, 1772) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Knokke [details] North West Atlantic [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Voordelta [details] West Coast of Norway [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Depth range: 20-34 [details] Diet: Feeds on decaying vegetation, especially Fucus vesiculosus. [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence to North Carolina [details] Habitat: Found at depths of 1-200 m; prefer hard and algae covered substrate. [details] Spelling: Idotea baltica [details] type locality: N.E. Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119039 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Idotea balthica (Pallas, 1772). 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=119039 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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