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Achelia vulgaris (Costa, 1861) 
AphiaID: 134605

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 franciscana (Dohrn, 1881)
Sources  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: Bouvier, E.-L. (1923). Pycnogonides [Pycnogonida]. Fauna of France, 7. Paul Lechevalier: Paris, France. 69 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 11 [details]


additional source: Costa, O.G. (1861). Microdoride mediterranea, o descrizione de'poco ben conosciuti od affatto ignoti viventi minuti e microscopici del Mediterraneo, etc., 1: i-xviii, 1-80.
page(s): 11 [details]


additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

Environment marine
Distribution East North Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimen  Unknown type , locality Mediterranean Sea [details]
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Pycnogonid Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: coastal to upper slope [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134605
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Legakis, Anastasios
2007-01-19 16:36:29Z  checked  Bamber, Roger
  
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  Citation: Bamber, R. (2013). Achelia vulgaris (Costa, 1861). 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=134605 on 2013-05-19
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