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Melia 
AphiaID: 205074

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Xanthoidea (Superfamily) > Xanthidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Added by Database Management Team
Accepted name  Lybia H. Milne Edwards, 1834
Rank Genus
Parent Xanthidae MacLeay, 1838
Source  basis of record: Bouvier, E.L. (1915). Decapodes marcheurs (Repantia) et Stomatopodes recueillis a l'ile Maurice par M. Paul Carie. Bull. Scient. Fr. Belg. 3 (48): 178-318. (look up in IMIS[details]

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Species Melia brevipes Haswell, 1881 accepted as Litocheira bispinosa Kinahan, 1856
Species Melia caestifer Alcock accepted as Lybia caestifera (Alcock, 1898)
Species Melia caestifera Alcock, 1898 accepted as Lybia caestifera (Alcock, 1898)
Species Melia pugil Alcock, 1898 accepted as Lybia pugil (Alcock, 1898)
Species Melia quadridentata Latreille, 1828 accepted as Pseudorhombila quadridentata (Latreille, 1828)
Species Melia tessellata Latreille accepted as Lybia tessellata (Latreille, in Milbert, 1812)
Link To ITIS
Note  Synonymy: Preoccupied name: Rathbun (1904: not seen) in Bouvier (1915) <204>. Bouvier does not follow Rathbun; more recent authors seem to do. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205074
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1997-09-11 16:01:23Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Melia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205074 on 2013-05-20
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