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Idotea phosphorea Harger, 1873 
AphiaID: 157891

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Valvifera (Suborder) > Idoteidae (Family) > Idotea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Idotea Fabricius, 1798
Sources  original description: Harger, O. (1873) [Erichsonia attenuata, Page 276] in A. E. Verrill, S. I. Smith, and O. Harger, Catalogue of the Marine Invertebrate animals of the southern coast of New England, and adjacent waters. In A. E. Verrill and S. I. Smith, Report upon the invertebrate animals of Vineyard Sound and adjacent waters, with an account of the physical features of the region In S. F. Baird, Report of Professor S. F. Baird, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, on the condition of the sea-fisheries of the south coast of New England in 1871 and 1872.Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. [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: 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
Notes  Depth range: 0-33 [details]

Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), upper North Shore (between Sept- Iles and Pointe des Monts), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands), southwestern slope of NL.; Cobscook Bay [details]

Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]

type locality: N.W. Atlantic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157891
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-24 14:41:52Z  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). Idotea phosphorea Harger, 1873. 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=157891 on 2013-05-25
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