WoRMS taxon details
Tachypleus gigas (O. F. Müller, 1785)
AphiaID: 238271
AphiaID: 238271
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Chelicerata (Subphylum) > Merostomata (Class) > Xiphosurida (Order) > Limulidae (Family) > Tachypleinae (Subfamily) > Tachypleus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Tachypleus Leach, 1819 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Limulus gigas O.F. Müller, 1785 (listed as synonym by Dunlop et al., 2012) Limulus heterodactylus Latreille, 1802 (listed as synonym by Dunlop et al., 2012) Limulus latreilli Leach, 1819 (listed as synonym by Dunlop et al., 2012) Limulus macleaii Leach, 1819 (listed as synonym by Dunlop et al., 2012) Limulus moluccanus Latreille, 1802 (listed as synonym by Dunlop et al., 2012) Limulus viriscens Latreille, 1806 (listed as synonym by Dunlop et al., 2012) Tachypleus heterodactylus (Latreille, 1802) (listed as synonym by Dunlop et al., 2012) Tachypleus hoeveni Pocock, 1902 (listed as synonym by Dunlop et al., 2012) | ||||||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Central Indo-Pacific [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (88 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:238271 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Boxshall, G. (2013). Tachypleus gigas (O. F. Müller, 1785). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=238271 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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