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Arcturus baffini (Sabine, 1824) 
AphiaID: 146502

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Valvifera (Suborder) > Arcturidae (Family) > Arcturus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Arcturus Latreille, 1829
Synonymised
taxa		  Idothea baffini Sabine, 1824 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Sabine, E., 1824. Marine Invertebrate Animals. In: Parry, W.E., A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry’s Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in the Years 1819-20. Containing an Account of the Subjects of Natural History: ccixi-ccxl, Plates 1-2. John Murray, London. [details]

additional source: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Beaufort Sea [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Depth range: 9-1146 [details]

type locality: Arctic Canada [details]
Images 
Arcturus baffini isopods
Arcturus baffini isopods
added on 2012-01-25 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Arcturus baffini - individual
Arcturus baffini - individual
added on 2012-04-19 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146502
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-01-25 08:49:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
2009-02-20 10:38:06Z  changed  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Arcturus baffini (Sabine, 1824). In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146502 on 2013-05-25
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