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Heterophoxus Shoemaker, 1925 
AphiaID: 176848

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Phoxocephalidae (Family) > Harpiniinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Heterophoxus pennatus Shoemaker, 1925 (type by monotypy)
Parent Harpiniinae Barnard & Drummond, 1978
Sources  basis of record: De Broyer, Claude. Checklist of Antarctic Amphipoda. [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Heterophoxus cephalodens Griffiths, 1975
Species Heterophoxus despard Alonso, 2012
Species Heterophoxus ellisi Jarrett & Bousfield, 1994
Species Heterophoxus oculatus (Holmes, 1908)
Species Heterophoxus ophthalmicus (Schellenberg, 1925)
Species Heterophoxus opus Griffiths, 1975
Species Heterophoxus pellusidus Ren, 1991
Species Heterophoxus pennatus Shoemaker, 1925
Species Heterophoxus trichosus K.H. Barnard, 1932
Species Heterophoxus videns K.H. Barnard, 1930

Species Heterophoxus affinis Holmes, 1908 accepted as Heterophoxus oculatus (Holmes, 1908)
Species Heterophoxus nitellus J.L. Barnard, 1960 accepted as Heterophoxus oculatus (Holmes, 1908)
Environment marine
Link To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:176848
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-22 07:14:23Z  created  Espinel, Nadjejda
2007-01-29 16:40:26Z  changed  De Broyer, Claude
2010-11-29 09:43:03Z  changed  Lowry, Jim
  
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  Citation: Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C. (2013). Heterophoxus Shoemaker, 1925. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=176848 on 2013-05-18
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