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Tachypleus Leach, 1819 
AphiaID: 238269

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Chelicerata (Subphylum) > Merostomata (Class) > Xiphosurida (Order) > Limulidae (Family) > Tachypleinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Tachypleinae Pocock, 1902
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

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taxa

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 Species Tachypleus gigas (O. F. Müller, 1785)
Species Tachypleus tridentatus (Leach, 1819)

Species Tachypleus heterodactylus (Latreille, 1802) accepted as Tachypleus gigas (O. F. Müller, 1785)
Species Tachypleus hoeveni Pocock, 1902 accepted as Tachypleus gigas (O. F. Müller, 1785)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:238269
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-03-12 20:43:02Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-02-19 16:39:15Z  checked  Boxshall, Geoff
2013-02-04 11:09:20Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
  
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  Citation: Boxshall, G. (2013). Tachypleus Leach, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=238269 on 2013-05-24
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