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Petalophthalmus Willemoes-Suhm, 1875 
AphiaID: 119914

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Mysida (Order) > Petalophthalmidae (Family)
Status accepted
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Petalophthalmus armiger Willemoes-Suhm, 1875
Parent Petalophthalmidae Czerniavsky, 1882
Sources  original description: von Willemoes-Suhm, R. (1875). On some Atlantic Crustacea from the Challenger Expedition Trans. Linn. Soc. of Lond., Zool. I(Part the First): 23-59, plates VI-XIII (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: van der Land, J.; Brattegard, T. (2001). Mysidacea, 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. 293-295 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea. [details]

additional source: Muller, H.G. (1993) . World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Tattersall, O.S. 1955. Mysidacea.-- Discovery Reports 28: 1-190, 46 figs. [details]

additional source: World List of the Mysidacea - Created by Wooldridge, T. & Mees, J. [details]

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 Species Petalophthalmus armiger Willemoes-Suhm, 1875
Species Petalophthalmus caribbeanus O. Tattersall, 1968
Species Petalophthalmus liui Wang, 1998
Species Petalophthalmus macrops Tchindonova & Vereshchaka, 1991
Species Petalophthalmus oculatus Illig, 1906

Species Petalophthalmus australis Panampunnayil, 1982 accepted as Pseudopetalophthalmus australis (Panampunnayil, 1982)
Species Petalophthalmus inermis Willemoes-Suhm, 1875 accepted as Birsteiniamysis inermis (Willemoes-Suhm, 1874)
Species Petalophthalmus pacificus Faxon, 1895 accepted as Petalophthalmus armiger Willemoes-Suhm, 1875
Environment marine
Links To NeMys
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119914
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-02-25 08:02:23Z  changed  Mees, Jan
  
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  Citation: Mees, J. (2013). Petalophthalmus Willemoes-Suhm, 1875. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119914 on 2013-05-25
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