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Fortimesus thomsoni (Beddard, 1886) 
AphiaID: 579420

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Asellota (Suborder) > Janiroidea (Superfamily) > Ischnomesidae (Family) > Fortimesus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Fortimesus Kavanagh & Wilson, 2007
Synonymised
taxa		  Haplomesus thomsoni Beddard, 1886
 Ischnosoma thomsoni Beddard, 1886 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Beddard, F. E. (1886) Report on the Isopoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Part 2. Report of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 17: 1-178. [details]

additional source: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details]

new combination reference: Kavanagh, F. A. and G. D. F. Wilson (2007) Revision of the genus Haplomesus (Isopoda:Asellota:Ischnomesidae) with erection of four new genera. Invertebrate Systematics 21: 487-535., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/journals/is [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution type locality: North West Pacific [details]
Notes  Original Combination: Ischnosoma thomsoni Beddard, 1886 [details]

synonymy: Heteromesus thomsoni Richardson, 1908: 81. – Menzies, 1962: 12.

Haplomesus thomsoni Birstein, 1960: 6. – Wolff, 1962: 86, 87, 265, fig. 39; 1971: 209, 210; Kussakin, 1988: 467–468, fig. 383; Merrin & Poore, 2002: 82–84; ICZN, 2004: 82–84.

Not Haplomesus thomsoni; Birstein, 1963b: 60, fig. 27. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:579420
Taxonomic
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2011-08-31 06:44:22Z  created  Wilson, George D.F.
  
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  Citation: Wilson, George D.F. (2013). Fortimesus thomsoni (Beddard, 1886). 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=579420 on 2013-05-23
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