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Alicella gigantea Chevreux, 1899 
AphiaID: 488208

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Alicellidae (Family) > Alicella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Alicella Chevreux, 1899
Parent Alicella Chevreux, 1899
Sources  original description: Chevreux E. (1899b). Sur deux espèces géantes d'amphipodes provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse Alice. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 24, 152-158; figs. 1-6;. [details]

additional source: De Broyer C. & Thurston M.H. (1987). New Atlantic material and redescription of the type specimens of the giant abyssal amphipod Alicella gigantea Chevreux (Crustacea). Zoologica Scripta, 16, 4, 335-350. [details]

additional source: Barnard J.L. & Ingram C.L. (1986). The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea Chevreux from the North Pacific gyre. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 6, 4, 825-839. [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, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution type locality: Canary Islands [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North Pacific [details]
Specimens  Holotype: MONA , locality Canary Islands [details]
Paratype: MONA , locality Canary Islands [details]
Feedingtype  scavenger [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Note  Depth zone: lower abyssal (4000-7000m). One record from 1720m (Barnard & Ingram) [details]
Image 
Alicella gigantea specimen
Alicella gigantea specimen
added on 2013-06-05 - author: Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, UK ()
qualitystatus: checked by Horton, Tammy on 2013-06-05 15:51:56
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:488208
Taxonomic
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2010-07-05 06:58:54Z  created  Lowry, Jim
  
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  Citation: Lowry, J. (2013). Alicella gigantea Chevreux, 1899. In: Horton, T.; Lowry, J. & De Broyer, C. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=488208 on 2013-06-20
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