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Metacirolana fishelsoni (Bruce & Jones, 1978) 
AphiaID: 256631

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Cirolanidae (Family) > Metacirolana (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Metacirolana Nierstrasz, 1931
Synonymised
taxa
  Cirolana fishelsoni (Bruce & Jones, 1978) (basionym)
Sources  original description: Bruce, N. L. and Jones, D. A. (1978) The systematics of some Red Sea Isopoda (Family Cirolanidae) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Zoology, London 185: 395-413. [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]

from synonym: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Depth range: shallow [details]

type locality: Red Sea [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256631
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2008-01-17 01:22:02Z  changed  Bruce, Niel L.
  
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  Citation: Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2013). Metacirolana fishelsoni (Bruce & Jones, 1978). 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=256631 on 2013-05-23
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