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Microniscidae Giard & Bonnier, 1887 
AphiaID: 445798

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Bopyroidea (Superfamily)
Status unaccepted unaccepted ("Microniscus" is a larval stage of an epicaridean; at this point it is not possible to match the described species even to families, and they may not all even be Bopyroidea)
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Accepted name  Bopyroidea incertae sedis
Rank Family
Parent Bopyroidea
Sources  original description: Giard, A., and Bonnier, J. (1887) Contributions a l'etude des bopyriens. Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de Lille et du Laboratoire Marine de Wimereux 5: 1-272. [details]

source of synonymy: Sars, G.O. (1898). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway with Short Descriptions and Figures of all the Species. Volume II. Isopoda. Bergen Museum, Bergen. x + 270 pp., 104 pls. (bopyroid text and pls. published in 1898). [details]

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 Genus Microniscus Müller, 1871
  » Species Microniscus acartii Gnanamuthu & Krishnaswamy, 1948
» Species Microniscus calani G.O. Sars, 1883
» Species Microniscus eucalani Gnanamuthu & Krishnaswamy, 1948
» Species Microniscus fuscus Müller, 1871
» Species Microniscus latyfrons Gnanamuthu & Krishnaswamy, 1948
» Species Microniscus ornatus Vanhöffen, 1914
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:445798
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2009-12-23 11:19:49Z  created  Boyko, Christopher
2010-10-08 14:48:11Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C. (2013). Microniscidae Giard & Bonnier, 1887. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=445798 on 2013-05-25
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