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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacrochironidae Humes & Boxshall, 1996 
AphiaID: 128579

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArthropoda (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCrustacea (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMaxillopoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCopepoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeocopepoda (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPodoplea (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPoecilostomatoida (Order)
Status accepted
Rank Family
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPoecilostomatoida
Sources  original description Humes, A.G. & G.A. Boxshall. 1996. A revision of the lichomolgoid complex (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida), with the recognition of six new families. Journal of Natural History, London 30:175-227. [details]

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[sort alpha..]		 Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacrochiron Brady, 1872
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorParamacrochiron Sewell, 1949
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPseudomacrochiron Reddiah, 1969
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSewellochiron Humes, 1969

Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOncaeola Kramer, 1895 (taxon inquirendum, treated as a genus inquirendum by Boxshall & Halsey (2004))

Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacrocheiron Brady, 1872 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacrochiron Brady, 1872
Environment marine
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128579
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Boxshall, Geoff
2005-05-04 07:42:17Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-07-31 00:31:30Z  checked  Walter, T. Chad
  
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  Citation: Walter, T. Chad; Boxshall, G. (2014). Macrochironidae Humes & Boxshall, 1996. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2014). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128579 on 2014-07-23
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