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Achelia spicata (Hodgson, 1915) 
AphiaID: 172865

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Chelicerata (Subphylum) > Pycnogonida (Class) > Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Ascorhynchoidea (Superfamily) > Ammotheidae (Family) > Achelia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Achelia Hodge, 1864
Synonymised
taxa		  Achelia intermedia Calman, 1915
Sources  basis of record: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Munilla T. & A. Soler (2009). Check-list of the pycnogonids from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters: zoogeographic implications. Antarctic Science 21 (2): 99-111. (look up in IMIS) [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 Circumpolar [details]
Specimen  Unknown type , locality Antarctica [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Pycnogonid Collection
Note  description: described as Austrothea [details]
Image 
Achelia spicata
Achelia spicata
added on 2008-05-01 - author: C. Arango
qualitystatus: checked by Arango, Claudia on 2008-05-01 04:15:01
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172865
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-13 08:38:10Z  created  Amelinckx, Simon
2007-01-19 16:36:29Z  checked  Bamber, Roger
  
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  Citation: Bamber, R. (2013). Achelia spicata (Hodgson, 1915). In: Bamber, R.N., El Nagar, A. (Eds) (2013). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=172865 on 2013-06-20
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