WoRMS taxon details
Idotea metallica Bosc, 1802
AphiaID: 119047
AphiaID: 119047
| 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 algirica Lucas, 1849 (junior synonym) Idotea annulata Dana, 1849 (junior synonym) Idotea argentea Dana, 1849 (junior synonym) Idotea atrata Costa, 1838 (junior synonym) Idotea brevicornis Rathke, 1843 (junior synonym) Idotea margaritacea Dana, 1853 (junior synonym) Idotea peloponesiaca Roux, 1830 (junior synonym) Idotea robusta Krøyer, 1846 (junior synonym) Idotea rugosa Milne Edwards, 1840 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire naturelle des Crustaces, contenant leur description et leurs moeurs. 2 volumes, Paris. [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] basis of record: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: 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: 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: Davoult, D.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Luczak, C.; Migné, A. (1999). Nouvelles signalisations d'espèces benthiques sur les côtes françaises de la Manche orientale et de la Mer du Nord [New reports of benthic species from the french coasts of the eastern English Channel and the North Sea]. Cah. Biol. Mar. 40(2): 121-127 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Poore, G.C.B.; Bruce, N. (2009). Isopoda (Crustacea). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] from synonym: Lucas, H. (1849) Histoire naturelle des Animaux Articules. Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842. Sciences Physiques Zoologie I: 1-403. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Dana, J. D. (1849) Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Republicae Foederate Duce, Isopoda I. American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series 8: 424-427. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Dana, J. D. (1853) Crustacea. Part II. In: C. Wilkes, United States Exploring Expedition, 1838- 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes. 14:1618 pages. Philadelphia. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Kroyer, H. (1846) Karcinologiste Bidrag. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, Kjobenhavn (series 2) 2 (2): 1-123. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Milne Edwards, H., 1834-1840. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l’anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux: 1-468, 1-532, 1-638, 1-32, Plates 1-42. Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. [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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Idotea metallica elongata Cáråusu, 1955 accepted as Idotea ostroumovi Sowinsky, 1895 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Adriatic Sea [details] Amsterdam Island & St. Paul Island Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Black Sea [details] Boulogne-sur-Mer [details] Chinde [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mascarene Plateau [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Plymouth [details] Red Sea [details] Table Bay [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Depth range: intertidal - 1600 [details] Distribution: Species, originally from North America, occurs occasionally on the British coasts and most probably is brought here by drifting algae or wood, or through the Gulf stream and North Atlantic current. [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod [details] Habitat: Found from the intertidal zone to 166 m depth; prefers hard and algae covered substrate. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119047 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Idotea metallica Bosc, 1802. 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=119047 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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