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Microarcturus Nordenstam, 1933 
AphiaID: 293850

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Valvifera (Suborder) > Arcturidae (Family)
Status nomen nudum (erected without type species)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Arcturidae Dana, 1849
Sources  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: Poore G.C.B. (1991). Neoarcturus Barnard, 1914: diagnoses of the genus and its type species and substitution for the nomen nudum "Microarcturus" Nordenstam, 1933 (Isopoda, Arcturidae). Annals of the South African Museum, 101, 1, 1-8. [details]

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Species Microarcturus abnormis Kussakin, 1967 accepted as Mixarcturus abnormis (Kussakin, 1967)
Species Microarcturus barnardi Kensley, 1984 accepted as Neoarcturus barnardi (Kensley, 1984)
Species Microarcturus biseralis Kensley, 1978 accepted as Neoarcturus biseralis (Kensley, 1978)
Species Microarcturus dayi Kensley, 1977 accepted as Austroarcturus dayi (Kensley, 1977)
Species Microarcturus digitatus Nordenstam, 1933 accepted as Mixarcturus digitatus (Nordenstam, 1933)
Species Microarcturus halei Kensley, 1984 accepted as Neoarcturus halei (Kensley, 1984)
Species Microarcturus laevis Kensley, 1975 accepted as Austroarcturus laevis (Kensley, 1975)
Species Microarcturus longispinus Kensley, 1984 accepted as Neoarcturus longispinus (Kensley, 1984)
Species Microarcturus mawsoni Hale, 1946 accepted as Fissarcturus mawsoni (Hale, 1946)
Species Microarcturus nordenstami Kensley, 1984 accepted as Neoarcturus nordenstami (Kensley, 1984)
Species Microarcturus ornatus Kensley, 1975 accepted as Neoarcturus ornatus (Kensley, 1975)
Species Microarcturus quadriconus Kensley, 1975 accepted as Austroarcturus quadriconus (Kensley, 1975)
Species Microarcturus rugosus Nordenstam, 1933 accepted as Fissarcturus rugosus (Nordenstam, 1933)
Species Microarcturus scutatus Stephensen, 1947 accepted as Pseudidothea scutata (Sheppard, 1957)
Species Microarcturus tannerensis Schultz, 1966 accepted as Holidoteidae incertae sedis tannerensis (Schultz, 1966)
Species Microarcturus youngi Kensley, 1978 accepted as Neoarcturus youngi (Kensley, 1978)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293850
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-02-19 09:31:38Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2008-03-13 10:11:15Z  changed  Poore, Gary
2009-02-20 10:38:06Z  changed  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Microarcturus Nordenstam, 1933. 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=293850 on 2013-05-23
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