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Metaphryxus Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 
AphiaID: 293846

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily) > Bopyridae (Family) > Hemiarthrinae (Subfamily)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Metaphrixus Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Metaphrixus carolii Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 (type by monotypy)
Parent Hemiarthrinae Markham, 1972
Sources  original description: Nierstrasz, H. F. and Brender a Brandis, G. A. (1931) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. 57. Epicaridea 2. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn 91: 147-225. [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]

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taxa
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Species Metaphryxus bifidus Bourdon, 1967 accepted as Dicropleon bifidus (Bourdon, 1967)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293846
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-02-19 09:31:38Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2010-10-07 22:43:00Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2010-10-20 16:54:03Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
2011-11-30 16:38:56Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C.; Schotte, M. (2013). Metaphryxus Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931. 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=293846 on 2013-05-23
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