WoRMS taxon details
Cyathura polita (Stimpson, 1856)
AphiaID: 157847
AphiaID: 157847
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Anthuroidea (Superfamily) > Anthuridae (Family) > Cyathura (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Cyathura Norman & Stebbing, 1886 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Anthura polita Stimpson, 1855 (basionym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Stimpson W. (1855). Descriptions of some new marine invertebrata. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7 (10): 385-395 [details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [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] additional source: Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Canada [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] USA [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Depth range: intertidal - 35 [details] Distribution: Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); Cobscook Bay to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: estuarine. infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] type locality: N.W. Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157847 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Cyathura polita (Stimpson, 1856). 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=157847 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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