WoRMS taxon details
Afromysis ornata O. Tattersall, 1957
AphiaID: 226786
AphiaID: 226786
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Mysida (Order) > Mysidae (Family) > Leptomysinae (Subfamily) > Afromysis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Afromysis Zimmer, 1916 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Tattersall, O.S. (1957). Report on a small collection of Mysidacea from the Sierra Leone estuary together with a survey of the genus Rhopalophthalmus Illig and a description of a new species of Tenagomysis from Lagos, Nigeria. Proceedings of the Royal Society 129: 81-128 [details] basis of record: Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea. [details] additional source: Muller, H.G. (1993) . World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: World List of the Mysidacea - Created by Wooldridge, T. & Mees, J. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Sierra Leone River [details] Atlantic [details] East Indian Ocean [details] Eastern Central Atlantic [details] Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Sierra Leone River [details] West Africa [details] West Central Atlantic [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype: BMNH 1957.6.19 11-18, locality Sierra Leone River (estuary) [details]
Syntype: BMNH 1957.6.19 11-18, locality Sierra Leone River (estuary) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Depth range: littoral [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:226786 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mees, J. (2013). Afromysis ornata O. Tattersall, 1957. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=226786 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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