WoRMS taxon details
Melicertus tigrinus Rafinesque, 1814
AphiaID: 377727
AphiaID: 377727
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Dendrobranchiata (Suborder) > Penaeoidea (Superfamily) > Penaeidae (Family) > Melicertus (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Melicertus kerathurus (Forskål, 1775) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Melicertus Rafinesque, 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Melicertus Rafinesque, 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Rafinesque, C.S. (1814). Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814; ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palerme. Pp. 1-55. Also lithoprint facsimile re-edition in 1948 by Peter Smith, The Murray Printing Company, Wakefield, Massachusetts 55pp; plates. [details] basis of record: Pérez Farfante, I. & B. Kensley, 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera.— Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle 175: 1-233. [details] additional source: De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish | |||||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype , locality Sicily [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:377727 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2013). Melicertus tigrinus Rafinesque, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=377727 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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