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Thalassisobates littoralis (Silvestri, 1903) 
AphiaID: 151175

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Myriapoda (Subphylum) > Diplopoda (Class) > Helminthomorpha (Subclass) > Julida (Order) > Nemasomatidae (Family) > Thalassisobates (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Thalassisobates Verhoeff, 1908
Synonymised
taxa
  Isobates adriaticus Verhoeff, 1908
Isobates littoralis Silvestri, 1903 (basionym)
Thalassisobates adriaticus (Verhoeff, 1908) (Synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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

additional source: Barber, A.D. (2009b) Littoral myriapods; a review. Soil Organisms 81(3):735-760 [details]

additional source: Roth, V.D. & Brown, W.L. (1976) Other intertidal air breathing arthropods in Cheng, L. Marine Insects. North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam - Oxford; American Elesevier Publishing, New York, available online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/techreport/48/ [details]

additional source: Blower, J.G. (1985) Millipedes. Linnean Society Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 35. E.J.Brill/Dr W.Backhuys, London, Leiden, Koln, Kobenhavn. [details]

additional source: Lee, P. (2006) Atlas of the Millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow [details]

additional source: Kime, R.D. (1990) A Provisional Atlas of European Myriapods Part 1. Fauna Europaea Evertebrata 1:1-109 [details]

additional source: Kime, R.D. (1999) The continental distribution of some British and Irish Millipedes. Bull.Brit.Myriapod Gp. 15:33-76 [details]

additional source: Enghoff, H. (1987) Thalassisobates littoralis (Silvestri) - an amphiatlantic millipede (Diplopoda, Julida, Nemasomatidae) Entomologists' Monthly Magazine 123:205-206 [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic Coast of United States of America [details]
East Coast of England [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details]
Isle of Man [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Sweden [details]
West Coast of England [details]
Link To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Mediterranean, British coast and one Swedish Record (Kime, 1990); may have been introduced to NW Europe (Kime, 1999).
Coast of USA (Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut) to which it may have been introduced (Enghoff, 1987) [details]

Habitat: In Cheng (1976) as Thalassiobates littoralis[details]

Habitat: On beaches, under algae, in shingle, etc. Not always easy to find. [details]

Additional information: Under kelp on ocean beaches in Europe and the Mediterranean. [details]
Image 
Thalassisobates littoralis, Seil Island, Scotland
Thalassisobates littoralis, Seil Island, Scotland
added on 2009-05-07 - author: Barber, Tony
qualitystatus: checked by Barber, A.D. on 2009-05-07 21:03:41
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2005-04-05 13:51:48Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2009-03-10 12:54:57Z  checked  Barber, A.D.
  
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  Citation: Barber, A.D. (2010). Thalassisobates littoralis (Silvestri, 1903). In: Barber, A.D. (2010) World database of littoral Myriapoda. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151175 on 2010-09-02
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