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Whiteleggia Lang, 1970

Whiteleggia multicarinata (Whitelegge, 1901)

AphiaID

247035 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:247035)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Whiteleggia multicarinata (Whitelegge, 1901) (type by monotypy)

Type taxon of

Whiteleggiinae Gutu, 1972

Parent

Whiteleggiidae Gutu, 1972

Direct children (3)

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Species Whiteleggia multicarinata (Whitelegge, 1901)
Species Whiteleggia stephensoni Boesch, 1973
Species Whiteleggia incerta Gutu, 2006 accepted as Whiteleggia stephensoni Boesch, 1973 (Synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Lang, K. (1970). Taxonomische und phylogenetische Untersuchungen über die Tanaidaceen 4. Aufteilung der Apseudiden in vier Familien nebst aufstellung von zwei Gattungen und einer Art der neuen Familie Leiopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi. Series 2, 22 (16): 595-626. [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Whiteleggia Lang, 1970. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=247035 on 2025-04-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-10-19 12:37:36Z

created

Anderson, Gary

2014-10-24 15:19:02Z

changed

Anderson, Gary

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Nomenclature

original description Lang, K. (1970). Taxonomische und phylogenetische Untersuchungen über die Tanaidaceen 4. Aufteilung der Apseudiden in vier Familien nebst aufstellung von zwei Gattungen und einer Art der neuen Familie Leiopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi. Series 2, 22 (16): 595-626. [details]

basis of record Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016)., available online at http://aquila.usm.edu/tanaids30/3 [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Gutu, M. (1972). Phylogenetic and systematic considerations upon the Monokononophora (Crustacea- Tanaidacea) with the suggestions of a new family and several new subfamilies. Revue Roumaine de Biologie (Série de Biologie Animale). 17: 297-305. [details]

taxonomy source Kudinova-Pasternak, R.K. (1978). Gigantapseudidae fam. n. (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) and composition of the suborder Monokonophora. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 57 (8): 1150-1161. [details]