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Miersia Kingsley, 1880
AphiaID: 585946

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Caridea (Infraorder) > Oplophoroidea (Superfamily) > Acanthephyridae (Family)

Status

unaccepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Accepted name

Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, 1881b

Rank

Genus

Parent

Acanthephyridae Spence Bate, 1888

Sources

original description: Kingsley, J.S., 1880. On a collection of Crustacea from Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, with a revision of the genera of Crangonidæ and Palæmonidæ.— Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1879: 383-427. [details]

basis of record: De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Direct child
taxa
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Species Miersia agassizii Smith, 1882 accepted as Acanthephyra purpurea A. Milne-Edwards, 1881
Species Miersia clavigera Chun, 1888 accepted as Lysmata seticaudata (Risso, 1816)
Species Miersia gracilis Smith, 1882 accepted as Systellaspis debilis (A.Milne-Edwards, 1881)
Species Miersia pacifica Holmes, 1895 accepted as Syncaris pacifica (Holmes, 1895)

Link

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LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:585946

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2011-11-07 09:15:12Z	created	Fransen, Charles

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Citation: Fransen, C. (2013). Miersia Kingsley, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585946 on 2013-05-22

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