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Lepidophthalmus turnerana (White, 1861) 
AphiaID: 477719

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Axiidea (Infraorder) > Callianassidae (Family) > Callichirinae (Subfamily) > Lepidophthalmus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lepidophthalmus Holmes, 1904
Synonymised
taxa		  Callianassa diademata Ortmann, 1891 (junior synonym)
 Callianassa krukenbergi Neumann, 1878 (junior synonym)
 Callianassa turnerana White, 1861 (genus change)
Sources  original description: White, A., 1861. Descriptions of two species of Crustacea belonging to the families Callianassidae and Squillidae. Proceedings Zoological Society London, 1861: 42-44, pls. 6-7. [details]

from synonym: Ortmann, A.E. (1891) Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein dei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. III. Theil. Die Abtheilungen der Reptantia Boas: Homaridae, Loricata und Thalassinidea. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, 6, 1-58. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Neumann, R., 1878. Systematische Uebersicht der gattungen der Oxyrhynchen. Catalog der podoph­thalmen Crustaceen des Heidelberger Museums. Beschreibung einiger neuer Arten: 1-39. Leipzig. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125 (13):292 p. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Cameroon ghost shrimp (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine, brackish
Distribution type locality: Cameroon (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
FAO fishing area 34 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Africa Coast (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): BM 58.36, locality Cameroon [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:477719
Taxonomic
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2010-05-26 07:27:30Z  created  Poore, Gary
  
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  Citation: Poore, G. (2013). Lepidophthalmus turnerana (White, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=477719 on 2013-05-23
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