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Alima Leach, 1817 
AphiaID: 136110

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Hoplocarida (Subclass) > Stomatopoda (Order) > Unipeltata (Suborder) > Squilloidea (Superfamily) > Squillidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Cancer neptuni Linnaeus, 1768
Parent Squillidae Latreille, 1802
Sources  original description: Leach, W.E. (1818): A general notice of the animals taken by Mr. John Cranch, during the expedition to explore the source of the River Zaire. App. no. 4, pp. 407-419 (1818), 1 pl. (1817), in: J.K. Tuckey: Narrative of an expedition to explore the River Zaire... [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Stomatopoda, 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. 284 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Ahyong, S.T. (2001) Revision of the Australian Stomatopod Crustacea. Records of the Australian Museum, Suppl. 26: 1-326. [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Alima hieroglyphica (Kemp, 1911)
Species Alima hildebrandi (Schmitt, 1940)
Species Alima maxima Ahyong, 2002
Species Alima neptuni (Linnaeus, 1768)
Species Alima orientalis Manning, 1978
Species Alima pacifica Ahyong, 2001

Species Alima angusta Dana, 1852 accepted as Alima neptuni (Linnaeus, 1768)
Species Alima gracilis H. Milne Edwards, 1837 accepted as Alima neptuni (Linnaeus, 1768)
Species Alima guinotae Moosa, 1991 accepted as Busquilla quadraticauda (Fukuda, 1911)
Species Alima hyalina Leach, 1817 accepted as Alima neptuni (Linnaeus, 1768)
Species Alima lebouri Gurney, 1946 accepted as Meiosquilla lebouri (Gurney, 1946)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:136110
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2009-07-15 06:32:28Z  changed  db_admin
2013-04-01 22:46:56Z  checked  Ahyong, Shane
  
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  Citation: Ahyong, S. (2013). Alima Leach, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=136110 on 2013-05-23
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