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Litarcturus Brandt, 1990 
AphiaID: 174629

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Valvifera (Suborder) > Antarcturidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Arcturus coppingeri Miers, 1881 (type by original designation)
Parent Antarcturidae Poore, 2001
Source  basis of record: 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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Litarcturus americanus (Beddard, 1886)
Species Litarcturus antarcticus (Bouvier, 1910)
Species Litarcturus bicornis (Kensley, 1984)
Species Litarcturus coppingeri (Miers, 1881)
Species Litarcturus granulosus (Nordenstam, 1933)
Species Litarcturus lillei (Tattersall, 1921)
Species Litarcturus stebbingi (Beddard, 1886)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To ITIS
Note  Classification: Member of the family Arcturidae according to RAMS [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174629
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-14 07:53:52Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
2008-03-13 10:11:15Z  changed  Poore, Gary
2009-02-20 10:38:06Z  changed  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Litarcturus Brandt, 1990. 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=174629 on 2013-05-21
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