Marine Species Traits - Moruloidea Baker, 1908

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Moruloidea Baker, 1908

AphiaID

248992 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248992)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Moruloidea lacertosa Baker, 1908 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Sphaeromatidae Latreille, 1825

Original name

Moruloidea Baker, 1908

Synonymised names

Euvallentinia Stebbing, 1914 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Vallentinia Stebbing, 1914 · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Vallentinia...)

junior homonym of Vallentinia Browne, 1902 [Hydrozoa]

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Species Moruloidea darwinii (Cunningham, 1871)
Species Moruloidea fraudatrix (Kussakin & Vasina, 1982)
Species Moruloidea lacertosa Baker, 1908
Species Moruloidea ornata (Kussakin & Vasina, 1982)
Species Moruloidea pentacantha Calderón López & Doti, 2025
Species Moruloidea perionasus Bruce, 2003
Species Moruloidea tasmaniae (Baker, 1926)
Species Moruloidea tuberculata (Schultz, 1978)
Species Moruloidea tumida Harrison, 1984
Species Moruloidea urocerata Calderón López & Doti, 2025

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Baker, W.H. (1908). Notes on some species of the isopod family Sphaeromidae, from the South Australian coast. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia. 32: 138-162, pls. 3-10. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Moruloidea Baker, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248992 on 2025-06-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-11-28 15:20:16Z

created

Schotte, Marilyn

2019-05-30 20:52:43Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2024-02-21 16:05:19Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Baker, W.H. (1908). Notes on some species of the isopod family Sphaeromidae, from the South Australian coast. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia. 32: 138-162, pls. 3-10. [details]

original description (of Vallentinia Stebbing, 1914) Stebbing, T. R. R. (1914). Crustacea from the Falkland Islands collected by Mr. Rupert Vallentin, F.L.S.- Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1914: 341–378., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31625985 [details]

original description (of Euvallentinia Stebbing, 1914) Stebbing, T. R. R. (1914). Notice. Euvallentinia nom. n. for Vallentinia Stebbing. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1914: 944. [details]

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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Vallentinia) (from synonym Vallentinia Stebbing, 1914)
To ITIS