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Macrochiron Brady, 1872 
AphiaID: 128674

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Copepoda (Subclass) > Neocopepoda (Infraclass) > Podoplea (Superorder) > Poecilostomatoida (Order) > Macrochironidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Macrochironidae Humes & Boxshall, 1996
Synonymised
taxa
  Macrocheiron Brady, 1872 (lapsus calami)
Sources  basis of record: Boxshall, G. (2001). Copepoda (excl. Harpacticoida), 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. 252-268 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Macrochiron angulare Humes, 1977
Species Macrochiron anomalum Kim I.H., 2000
Species Macrochiron avirostrum Morris, 1973
Species Macrochiron cheliferum (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
Species Macrochiron echinicolum Humes & Stock, 1973
Species Macrochiron fucicolum Brady, 1872
Species Macrochiron hudsoni Morris, 1973
Species Macrochiron lobatum Humes & de Maria, 1969
Species Macrochiron lytocarpi Humes, 1966
Species Macrochiron mutatum Stock, 1957
Species Macrochiron rostratum Humes, 1966
Species Macrochiron sargassi Sars G.O., 1916
Species Macrochiron valgum Humes, 1966
Species Macrochiron vervoorti Humes & de Maria, 1969

Species Macrochiron longipes Sewell, 1949 (species inquirenda, Humes & Stock (1973): insufficiently described)

Species Macrochiron brevipes Shen & Lee, 1966 accepted as Critomolgus brevipes (Shen & Lee, 1966)
Species Macrochiron buddhensis (Thompson & Scott A., 1903) accepted as Critomolgus buddhensis (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
Species Macrochiron elegans (Thompson & Scott A., 1903) accepted as Lichomolgus elegans I. C. Thompson & A. Scott, 1903
Species Macrochiron gracilipes (Scott A., 1909) accepted as Doridicola gracilipes (Scott A., 1909)
Species Macrochiron hirsutipes (Scott T., 1893) accepted as Doridicola hirsutipes (Scott T., 1893)
Species Macrochiron malayense Sewell, 1949 accepted as Pseudomacrochiron malayense (Sewell, 1949)
Species Macrochiron maximum (Sewell, 1949) accepted as Paramacrochiron maximum (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
Species Macrochiron ornatum Krishnaswamy, 1952 accepted as Pseudomacrochiron ornatum (Krishnaswamy, 1952)
Species Macrochiron parvum (Scott A., 1909) accepted as Pseudomacrochiron parvum (Scott A., 1909)
Species Macrochiron rigida Ummerkutty, 1962 accepted as Critomolgus rigidus (Ummerkutty, 1961)
Species Macrochiron spinipes Sewell, 1949 accepted as Anisomolgus spinipes (Sewell, 1949)
Species Macrochiron trochi (Canu, 1899) accepted as Epimolgus trochi (Canu, 1899)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links 3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Macrochiron
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128674
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Boxshall, Geoff
2006-09-22 06:50:38Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-07-28 20:41:46Z  checked  Walter, T. Chad
  
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  Citation: Walter, T. Chad; Boxshall, G. (2013). Macrochiron Brady, 1872. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2013). World of Copepods database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128674 on 2013-06-19
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