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Gastroptychus investigatoris (Alcock & Anderson, 1899) 
AphiaID: 392025

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Chirostyloidea (Superfamily) > Chirostylidae (Family) > Gastroptychus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Gastroptychus Caullery, 1896
Synonymised
taxa
  Chirostylus investigatoris (Alcock & Anderson, 1899)
Ptychogaster investigatoris Alcock & Anderson, 1899
Sources  original description: Alcock, A. and A.R.S. Anderson (1899). Natural history notes from H.M. Royal Indian marine survey ship Investigator, commander T.H. Heming, R.N., commanding. Series III, No. 2. An account of the deep-sea Crustacea dredged during the surveying season of 1897-98. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7)3: 278-292. [details]

basis of record: Baba K., Macpherson E., Poore G., Ahyong S., Bermudez A., Cabezas P., Lin C., Nizinski M., Rodrigues C. & Schnabel K. 2008. Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura—families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). (Zootaxa 1905). 220 pp.; 30 cm. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine
Links To Barcode of Life
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:392025
Taxonomic
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2009-04-21 10:47:48Z  created  Macpherson, Enrique
  
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  Citation: Macpherson, E. (2013). Gastroptychus investigatoris (Alcock & Anderson, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=392025 on 2013-05-21
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