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Macrochiridothea Ohlin, 1901 
AphiaID: 248924

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Valvifera (Suborder) > Chaetiliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Macrochiridothea michaelseni Ohlin, 1901
Parent Chaetiliidae Dana, 1849
Sources  original description: Ohlin, A. (1901) Isopoda from Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. i. Valvifera. Svenska Expeditionen till Magellanslaenderna ii 261- 306. (look up in IMIS) [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 Macrochiridothea estuariae Poore, Ramirez & Schiariti, 2009
Species Macrochiridothea kruimeli Nierstrasz, 1918
Species Macrochiridothea lilianae Moreira, 1972
Species Macrochiridothea marcusi Moreira, 1972
Species Macrochiridothea mehuinensis Jaramillo, 1977
Species Macrochiridothea michaelseni Ohlin, 1901
Species Macrochiridothea multituberculata Nordenstam, 1933
Species Macrochiridothea robusta Bastida & Torti, 1969
Species Macrochiridothea setifer Menzies, 1962
Species Macrochiridothea stebbingi Ohlin, 1901
Species Macrochiridothea uncinata Hurley & Murray, 1968

Species Macrochiridothea australis auctorum accepted as Chiriscus australis Richardson, 1911
Species Macrochiridothea giambiagiae Torti & Bastida, 1972 accepted as Chiriscus giambiagiae (Torti & Bastida, 1972)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To ITIS
Image 
Svenska Exp. till Magellanslanderna. Bd. II. No. 11. Pl. XXII
[image from typetaxon]
Svenska Exp. till Magellanslanderna. Bd. II. No. 11. Pl. XXII
added on 2013-02-05 - author: Ohlin, 1901
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248924
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2009-02-20 10:38:06Z  changed  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Macrochiridothea Ohlin, 1901. 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=248924 on 2013-05-20
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