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Amphisopidae Nicholls, 1943 
AphiaID: 248270

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Phreatoicidea (Suborder)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Family
Typetaxon Amphisopus Nicholls, 1926 (type by original designation)
Parent Phreatoicidea
Sources  original description: Nicholls, G. E. (1943) The Phreatoicoidea: Part I. The Amphisopidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1942 1-145. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details]

additional source: Poore, G. C. B., B. Knott, H. M. Lew Ton and G. D. F. Wilson. (2002). Suborder Phreatoicidea Stebbing, 1893. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. G. C. B. Poore and P. L. Beesley. Melbourne, Australia, CSIRO Publishing. 19.2A: 62-80., available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=PERACARIDA;pstrTaxa=5286;pstrChecklistMode=1 [details]

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 Genus Amphisopus Nicholls, 1926
Genus Eophreatoicus Nicholls, 1926
Genus Eremisopus Wilson & Keable, 2002
Genus Paramphisopus Nicholls, 1943
Genus Peludo Wilson & Keable, 2002
Genus Phreatomerus Chilton, 1883
Genus Platypyga Wilson & Keable, 2002
Genus Protamphisopus Nicholls, 1943 †
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248270
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-11-27 17:31:00Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2008-01-29 02:50:17Z  changed  Wilson, George D.F.
  
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  Citation: Wilson, George D.F. ; Schotte, M. (2013). Amphisopidae Nicholls, 1943. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248270 on 2013-06-19
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