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Centromedon mediator (Barnard, 1962) 
AphiaID: 708684

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Lysianassoidea (Superfamily) > Uristidae (Family) > Centromedon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Centromedon G.O. Sars, 1891
Synonymised
taxa		  Uristes mediator J.L. Barnard, 1962 (Synonym)
Sources  original description: Barnard J.L. (1962). South Atlantic abyssal amphipods collected by R.V." Vema". Abyssal Crustacea. Vema Research Series 1. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 1-78;79 figs. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record (from synonym): De Broyer C., Lowry J.K., Jazdzewski K. & Robert H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

identification resource: Olerod R. (1980). A taxonomic study of the lysianassid genus Centromedon G.O. Sars (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Zoologica Scripta, 9, 1, 35-52; figs. 1-124;. [details]

identification resource: Horton, T.; Thurston, M. (2011). Centromedon zoe (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae), a new deep-water scavenger species from the North Atlantic, with a key to the genus Centromedon. Zootaxa, 2869: 54–62, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02869p062.pdf [details]

context source (Deepsea): Barnard J.L. & Barnard C. M. (1990) Geographical Index to Marine Gammaridea (Amphipoda). Division of Crustacea, Dept of Zoology, Natural Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. USA 2050. 139 pp. [details]

Distribution Antarctic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:708684
Taxonomic
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2012-10-10 13:37:46Z  created  Horton, Tammy
  
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  Citation: Horton, T. (2013). Centromedon mediator (Barnard, 1962). 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=708684 on 2013-06-19
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