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Amphipoda taxon details

Brachyscelus rapacoides Stephensen, 1925

AphiaID

421622 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:421622)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Brachyscelus Spence Bate, 1861

Original name

Brachyscelus rapacoides Stephensen, 1925

Synonymised names

Brachyscelus atlantideus Reid, 1955 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Stephensen, K. (1925). Hyperiidea - Amphipoda (Part. 3: Lyaeopsidae, Pronoidae, Lycaeidae, Brachyscelidae, Oxycephalidae, Parascelidae, Platyscelidae). Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas. 2, 151–252.
page(s): 179-180 figs. 67-68 [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomic citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Brachyscelus rapacoides Stephensen, 1925. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/amphipoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=421622 on 2025-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-10-06 12:38:14Z

created

db_admin

2010-02-13 12:00:08Z

checked

De Broyer, Claude

2010-07-13 07:03:09Z

changed

Lowry, Jim

2021-10-16 09:01:56Z

changed

Horton, Tammy

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original description Stephensen, K. (1925). Hyperiidea - Amphipoda (Part. 3: Lyaeopsidae, Pronoidae, Lycaeidae, Brachyscelidae, Oxycephalidae, Parascelidae, Platyscelidae). Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas. 2, 151–252.
page(s): 179-180 figs. 67-68 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Brachyscelus atlantideus Reid, 1955) Reid, D. M. (1955). Amphipoda (Hyperiidea) off the coast of tropical West Africa. Atlantide Report. 3, 7–40. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors

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additional source Zeidler W.; De Broyer, C. (2009). Catalogue of the Hyperidean 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. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie. 79, suppl. 1: 1-103. [details]

additional source LeCroy, S. E.; Gasca, R.; Winfield, I.; Ortiz, M.; Escobar-Briones, E. (2009). Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College. Pp. 941–972. [details] Available for editors

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redescription Zeidler, W. (2021). A review of the hyperiidean amphipod family Brachyscelidae Stephensen, 1923 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Zootaxa. 5026 (3): 405–439., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5026.3.4 [details] Available for editors

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