WoRMS taxon details
Achelia echinata Hodge, 1864
AphiaID: 134599
AphiaID: 134599
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Chelicerata (Subphylum) > Pycnogonida (Class) > Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Ascorhynchoidea (Superfamily) > Ammotheidae (Family) > Achelia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Achelia Hodge, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Achelia fibulifera (Dohrn, 1881) Ammothea brevipes Hodge, 1864 (junior synonym) Ammothea echinata Hodge, 1864 (wrong genus) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Hodge, G. (1864). List of the British Pycnogonoidea, with descriptions of several new species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 13(3rd ser.): 113-117, pl. XII-XIII (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Legakis, A. (2001). Chelicerata, 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. 237 (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: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Giltay, L. (1934). Note sur quelques Pycnogonides de Villefranche S/Mer (Alpes-Maritimes) [Note on some pycnogonids of Villefranche S/Mer (Alpes-Maritimes)]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 10(35): 1-5 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Subspecies Achelia echinata japonica Ortmann, 1890 accepted as Achelia japonica Ortmann, 1890 Subspecies Achelia echinata nasuta Marcus, 1940 accepted as Achelia japonica Ortmann, 1890 Subspecies Achelia echinata orientalis Losina-Losinsky, 1933 accepted as Achelia japonica Ortmann, 1890 Subspecies Achelia echinata sinensis (Lou, 1936) accepted as Achelia japonica Ortmann, 1890 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] England [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North Atlantic [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Villefranche-Sur-Mer (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Unknown type , locality North Sea (Durham Coast, U.K.) [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (58 nucleotides; 56 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Pycnogonid Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: (Hodge, 1864) [details] Habitat: coastal to slope [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134599 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bamber, R. (2013). Achelia echinata Hodge, 1864. In: Bamber, R.N., El Nagar, A. (Eds) (2013). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134599 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
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