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Acanthacaris caeca A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 
AphiaID: 293250

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Macrura Reptantia (Suborder) > Astacidea (Infraorder) > Nephropoidea (Superfamily) > Nephropidae (Family) > Neophoberinae (Subfamily) > Acanthacaris (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Acanthacaris Bate, 1888
Synonymised
taxa
  Neophoberus caecus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1881) (secondary synonym)
Phoberus caecus A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (basionym)
Sources  basis of record: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details]

additional source: Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125 (13):292 p. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English Atlantic deep-sea lobster  [details]
English blind deep sea lobster  [details]
French langoustine arganelle  [details]
Spanish cigala de fondo  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution type locality: Grenada [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
FAO fishing area 31 [details]
Florida Strait [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: A deepsea species from 293 to 878 m depth (mostly between 550 and 825 m). Lives on soft mud bottoms in burrows. [details]
Image 
Acanthacaris caeca
Acanthacaris caeca
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293250
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-02-07 03:14:47Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-02-23 14:08:32Z  changed  Chan, Tin-Yam
  
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  Citation: Chan, T. (2013). Acanthacaris caeca A. Milne-Edwards, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293250 on 2013-05-19
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