WoRMS taxon details
Politolana obtusispina (Kensley, 1975)
AphiaID: 256719
AphiaID: 256719
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Cirolanidae (Family) > Politolana (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Politolana Bruce, 1981 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cirolana obtusispina Kensley, 1975 (basionym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Kensley, B. (1975) Marine Isopoda from the continental shelf of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 67 (4): 35-89. [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] status source: Riseman, S. and Brusca, R. C. (2002) Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of Politolana Bruce, 1981 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134(1): 57-140. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Depth range: 120 [details] status: Regarded as incerta sedis within Politolana by Riseman & Brusca (2002). [details] type locality: South Africa [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256719 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2013). Politolana obtusispina (Kensley, 1975). 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=256719 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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