WoRMS banner

WoRMS RSS feed RSS
Add search provider Add provider
Twitter: Latest updates @WRMarineSpecies

WoRMS taxon details

Porocephalida 
AphiaID: 384709

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Pentastomida (Subclass)
Authority Heymons, 1935
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Pentastomida
Synonymised
taxa
  Porocephaliformis (alternative spelling)
Sources  original description: Heymons, R. 1935. Pentastomida. Pp. 1-268 in: Dr H. G. Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. 5. Band: Arthropoda. IV. Abteilung: Arachnoidea. 1. Buch. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H.: Leipzig. [details]

basis of record: Christoffersen, M.L., and De Assis, J.E. 2013. A systematic monograph of the Recent Pentastomida, with a compilation of their hosts. Zoologische Mededelingen 87: 1-206. [details]

additional source: Poore, G.C.B. 2012. The nomenclature of the Recent Pentastomida (Crustacea), with a list of species and available names. Systematic Parasitology 82: 211-240. [details]

original description (from synonym): Motta, C.S. 1963. Consideraçães sôbre o gênero Cephalobaena Heymons, 1922 (Lingulatulida). Atas da Sociedade de Biologia do Rio de Janeiro 7: 12-13. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
 Superfamily Linguatuloidea
Superfamily Porocephaloidea
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Feedingtype  parasitic: endoparasitic [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:384709
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-03-10 14:14:17Z  created  Boxshall, Geoff
2012-11-22 16:24:36Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
2013-04-30 11:54:10Z  changed  Poore, Gary
  
[Taxonomic tree] [List Species] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
  Citation: Poore, G.; Boxshall, G. (2013). Porocephalida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=384709 on 2013-06-19
  Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License