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Pagurus politus (Smith, 1882) 
AphiaID: 158404

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Paguroidea (Superfamily) > Paguridae (Family) > Pagurus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pagurus Fabricius, 1775
Synonymised
taxa
  Eupagurus politus Smith, 1882
Sources  basis of record: Pohle, G.W. 1990. A guide to decapod Crustacea from the Canadian Atlantic: Anomura and Brachyura. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 1771. 29 p. [details]

additional source: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details]

additional source: McLaughlin, Patsy A.; Komai, Tomoyuki; Lemaitre, Rafael; Listyo Rahayu, Dwi. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 23: 5-107 [details]

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

Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Specimens  Syntype: USNM 21452, locality Northeastern United States [details]
Syntype: MCZ 1391, locality Northeastern United States (bet. Georges Bank & Newport) [details]
Syntype: MCZ 1392, locality Northeastern United States [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Georges Bank to Florida [details]

Habitat: Found at depths of 10-1170 m, in deeper waters may be associated with anthozoans rather than gastropod shells. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158404
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2009-08-17 13:15:28Z  changed  McLaughlin, Patsy
  
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  Citation: McLaughlin, P. (2013). Pagurus politus (Smith, 1882). In: Lemaitre, R.; McLaughlin, P. (2013) World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158404 on 2013-05-18
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