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Biffarius fragilis (Biffar, 1970) 
AphiaID: 421818

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Axiidea (Infraorder) > Callianassidae (Family) > Callianassinae (Subfamily) > Biffarius (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Biffarius Manning & Felder, 1991
Synonymised
taxa
  Callianassa fragilis Biffar, 1970 (genus change)
Sources  original description: Biffar, T.A. (1970) Three new species of callianassid shrimp (Decapoda, Thalassinidea) from the western Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 83, 35-50. [details]

basis of record: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:421818
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2009-10-06 12:38:14Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-26 06:19:12Z  changed  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G. (2013). Biffarius fragilis (Biffar, 1970). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=421818 on 2013-05-23
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