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Chiridotea excavata Harper, 1974 
AphiaID: 257333

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Valvifera (Suborder) > Chaetiliidae (Family) > Chiridotea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chiridotea Harger, 1878
Sources  original description: Harper, D. E. Jr. (1974) Chiridotea excavata n. sp. (Crustacea, Isopoda) from marine waters of Texas. Contributions to Marine Sciences, Texas A & M University 18: 229-239. [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]

additional source: Schotte, M., J. C. Markham, and G. D. F. Wilson. 2009. Isopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 973–986 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Depth range: 3.5-8 [details]

type locality: Gulf of Mexico [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257333
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2009-02-20 10:38:06Z  changed  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Chiridotea excavata Harper, 1974. 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=257333 on 2013-06-18
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