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Mesothuria (Mesothuria) bifurcata Hérouard, 1901 
AphiaID: 124563

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Aspidochirotida (Order) > Synallactidae (Family) > Mesothuria (Genus) > Mesothuria (Mesothuria) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mesothuria (Mesothuria)
Sources  original description: Herouard, E. (1901). Note preliminaire sur les Holothuries rapportees par l'Expedition Antarctique Belge. Arch. Zool. exp. Notes (3) ix: pp. xxxix-xlviii. [details]

basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, 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. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details]

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

Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Image 
Herouard (1906, pl. 2)
Herouard (1906, pl. 2)
added on 2009-08-10 - author: E. Herouard
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Paulay, Gustav on 2012-11-17 16:34:18
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124563
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2010-10-06 09:23:00Z  changed  Paulay, Gustav
  
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  Citation: Paulay, G.; Hansson, H. (2013). Mesothuria (Mesothuria) bifurcata Hérouard, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124563 on 2013-05-19
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