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Antarcturus signiensis White, 1979 
AphiaID: 174554

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Valvifera (Suborder) > Antarcturidae (Family) > Antarcturus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Antarcturus zur Strassen, 1902
Sources  original description: White, M. G. (1979) A new species of marine isopod of the genus Antarcturus (Isopoda, Valvifera) from the South Orkney Islands. Crustaceana 36 (1): 90-98. [details]

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: 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
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Depth range: intertidal - 20 [details]

type locality: South Orkney Is. [details]
Image 
Antarcturus signiensis
Antarcturus signiensis
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Brandt, Angelika on 2013-01-18 09:15:23
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174554
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-14 07:53:52Z  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). Antarcturus signiensis. 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=174554 on 2013-05-19
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