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Protolembos Myers, 1988

AphiaID

488845 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:488845)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Lembos chiltoni Myers, 1981 accepted as Protolembos chiltoni (Myers, 1981) (type by original designation)

Parent

Aoridae Stebbing, 1899

Original name

Protolembos Myers, 1988

Direct children (13)

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Species Protolembos arinyas Myers, 1988
Species Protolembos chiltoni (Myers, 1981)
Species Protolembos clematis (Moore, 1987)
Species Protolembos crouyensis Myers, 1998
Species Protolembos drummondae Myers, 1988
Species Protolembos kidoli (Myers, 1975)
Species Protolembos murrarum Myers, 1988
Species Protolembos ryukyuensis Ariyama & Kodama, 2024
Species Protolembos serratus Ariyama, 2004
Species Protolembos tegulapodos Myers, 2002
Species Protolembos verrucularum (Moore, 1987)
Species Protolembos yaranus Myers, 1988
Species Protolembos phylacanthus (Stebbing, 1888) accepted as Archaeobemlos philacanthus (Stebbing, 1888) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

Myers A.A. (1988). A cladistic and biogeographic analysis of the Aorinae subfamily nov. Crustaceana supplement. 13, pp. 167-192;12 figs. [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. (2026). World Amphipoda Database. Protolembos Myers, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=488845 on 2026-08-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-07-07 13:32:02Z

created

Lowry, Jim

2010-07-13 07:03:09Z

changed

Lowry, Jim

2010-08-09 12:03:25Z

changed

Lowry, Jim

2026-03-06 08:05:32Z

changed

Horton, Tammy

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Myers A.A. (1988). A cladistic and biogeographic analysis of the Aorinae subfamily nov. Crustaceana supplement. 13, pp. 167-192;12 figs. [details] Available for editors

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Identification resource

identification resource Ariyama, H.; Kodama, M. (2024). Three species of the family Aoridae Stebbing, 1899 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) collected from remote islands in southern Japan, with a key to all Japanese species of the family. Zootaxa. 5433(4): 500-528., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.4.2
page(s): 503; note: Key to World species [details] Available for editors

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