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Metaphreatoicus australis (Chilton, 1891) 
AphiaID: 261194

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Phreatoicidea (Suborder) > Phreatoicidae (Family) > Metaphreatoicus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Metaphreatoicus Nicholls, 1944
Parent Metaphreatoicus Nicholls, 1944
Synonymised
taxa		  Phreatoicus australis Chilton, 1891 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Chilton, C. (1891) On a new and peculiar freshwater isopod from Mt. Kosciusko. Records of the Australian Museum 1 (8): 149-171. [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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: Freshwater wetland [details]

Type locality: Kosciusko, New South Wales, Australia [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:261194
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
  
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  Citation: Schotte, M. (2013). Metaphreatoicus australis (Chilton, 1891). 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=261194 on 2013-05-25
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