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Isopoda taxon details

Mesamphisopidae Nicholls, 1943 
AphiaID: 292909

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Malacostraca > Eumalacostraca > Peracarida > Isopoda > Phreatoicidea
Status accepted
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status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Typetaxon Mesamphisopus Nicholls, 1943 (type by original designation)
Parent Phreatoicidea
Sources  original description: Nicholls, G. E. (1943) The Phreatoicoidea: Part I. The Amphisopidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1942 1-145. [details] [full text]

source of synonymy: Gouws, G. (2008). New species of Mesamphisopus, an endemic South African freshwater isopod genus (Isopoda: Phreatoicidea: Mesamphisopidae). Zootaxa 1690: 1-62.  [details]

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[hide all]		 Genus Mesamphisopus Nicholls, 1943
  » Species Mesamphisopus abbreviatus (Barnard, 1927)
» Species Mesamphisopus albidus Gouws, 2008
» Species Mesamphisopus baccatus Gouws, 2008
» Species Mesamphisopus capensis (Barnard, 1914)
» Species Mesamphisopus depressus (Barnard, 1927)
» Species Mesamphisopus kensleyi Gouws, 2008
» Species Mesamphisopus paludosus Gouws, 2008
» Species Mesamphisopus penicillatus (Barnard, 1940)
» Species Mesamphisopus setosus Gouws, 2008
» Species Mesamphisopus tsitsikamma Gouws, 2008
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:292909
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2008-01-29 02:50:17Z  created  Wilson, George D.F.
  
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  Citation: Wilson, George D.F. (2013). Mesamphisopidae Nicholls, 1943. 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: 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 at http://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=292909 on 2013-05-25