WoRMS taxon details
Acanthostepheia behringiensis (Lockington, 1877)
102862 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102862)
accepted
Species
Acanthostepheia pulchra Miers, 1881 · unaccepted
Oediceros behringiensis Lockington, 1877 · unaccepted > superseded combination
- Subspecies Acanthostepheia behringiensis carica Dementieva, 1931
- Subspecies Acanthostepheia behringiensis maraealba Dementieva, 1931
- Subspecies Acanthostepheia behringiensis polaris Dementieva, 1931
- Subspecies Acanthostepheia behringiensis mare-alba Dementieva, 1931 accepted as Acanthostepheia behringiensis maraealba Dementieva, 1931 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Oediceros behringiensis Lockington, 1877) Lockington, W.N. (1877). Description of seventeen new species of Crustacea. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7 [for 1876]: 41-48. [details] 
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. (2026). World Amphipoda Database. Acanthostepheia behringiensis (Lockington, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102862 on 2026-09-27
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Oediceros behringiensis Lockington, 1877) Lockington, W.N. (1877). Description of seventeen new species of Crustacea. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7 [for 1876]: 41-48. [details]
original description (of Acanthostepheia pulchra Miers, 1881) Miers, E.J. (1881). On a small collection of Crustacea and Pycnogonida from Franz-Josef Land, collected by B. Leigh Smith, Esq. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5.</em> 7: 45-51., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24722544 [details]
original description (of Acanthostepheia pulchra Miers, 1881) Miers, E.J. (1881). On a small collection of Crustacea and Pycnogonida from Franz-Josef Land, collected by B. Leigh Smith, Esq. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5.</em> 7: 45-51., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24722544 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Acanthostepheia pulchra Miers, 1881)
To PESI
To The Arctic Traits Database (5 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records) (from synonym Acanthostepheia pulchra Miers, 1881)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Acanthostepheia pulchra Miers, 1881)
To PESI
To The Arctic Traits Database (5 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records) (from synonym Acanthostepheia pulchra Miers, 1881)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records)
To ITIS
