WoRMS taxon details
Selfia Riley, 1994
AphiaID: 384731
AphiaID: 384731
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Pentastomida (Subclass) > Porocephalida (Order) > Porocephaloidea (Superfamily) > Sebekidae (Family) > Diesingiinae (Subfamily) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Selfia porosus Riley, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Diesingiinae Heymons, 1935 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Riley, J. 1994. A revision of the genus Alofia Giglioli, 1922 and a description of a new monotypic genus, Selfia: two genera of pentastomid parasites (Porocephalida: Sebekidae) inhabiting the bronchioles of the marine crocodile Crocodylus porosus and other crocodilians. Systematic Parasitology 29: 23-41.
[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] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Selfia porosus Riley, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | parasitic: endoparasitic [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:384731 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Poore, G.; Boxshall, G. (2013). Selfia Riley, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=384731 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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