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Entophilus Richardson, 1903 
AphiaID: 248726

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Bopyridae (Family) > Entophilinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Entophilus omnitectus Richardson, 1903 (type by original designation)
Typetaxon of  Entophilinae Richardson, 1903
Parent Entophilinae Richardson, 1903
Sources  original description: Richardson, H. (1903) Isopods collected at the Hawaiian Islands by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross. U. S. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1903. PP. 47-54. [details]

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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Entophilus mirabiledictu Markham & Dworschak, 2005
Species Entophilus omnitectus Richardson, 1903
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248726
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2010-10-19 19:09:57Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2011-11-30 16:38:56Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Entophilus Richardson, 1903. 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=248726 on 2013-05-25
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