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Caecognathia polaris (Hodgson, 1902)

257124  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257124)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Cymothoida (Suborder)
  11. Cymothooidea (Superfamily)
  12. Gnathiidae (Family)
  13. Caecognathia (Genus)
  14. Caecognathia polaris (Species)
accepted
Species
Gnathia polaris Hodgson, 1902 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Gnathia polaris Hodgson, 1902) Hodgson, T.V. (1902). XI. Crustacea. Report on the Collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic regions during the Voyage of the "Southern Cross". British Museum (Natural History), London., pp. 228-261. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12554192 [details] OpenAccess publication
Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Caecognathia polaris (Hodgson, 1902). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=257124 on 2025-05-10
Date
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
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Schotte, Marilyn

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Nomenclature

original description (of Gnathia polaris Hodgson, 1902) Hodgson, T.V. (1902). XI. Crustacea. Report on the Collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic regions during the Voyage of the "Southern Cross". British Museum (Natural History), London., pp. 228-261. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12554192 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Brandt, A.; Wägele, W. (1991). Parasitic Isopoda of the family Gnathiidae from the Atlantic sector of the southern ocean. Redescriptions and remarks on the synonymy. <em>Senckenbergiana Marit.</em> 21: 233-261.
page(s): pp. 246–252, figs. 4, 5 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Gnathia polaris Hodgson, 1902)
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