Marine Species Traits - Michelea Kensley & Heard, 1991

WoRMS taxon details

Michelea Kensley & Heard, 1991

AphiaID

415633 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415633)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Callianidea vandoverae Gore, 1987 accepted as Michelea vandoverae (Gore, 1987) (type by original designation)

Parent

Micheleidae Sakai, 1992

Original name

Michelea Kensley & Heard, 1991

Synonymised names

Micheleopsis Sakai, 2010 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Direct children (16)

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Species Michelea abranchiata Poore, 1997
Species Michelea dampieri Poore, 2008
Species Michelea devaneyi Poore, 1997
Species Michelea hortus Poore, 1997
Species Michelea imperieusae Poore & Collins, 2015
Species Michelea kalbarri Poore & Collins, 2015
Species Michelea lamellosa Kensley & Heard, 1991
Species Michelea lepta (Sakai, 1987)
Species Michelea leura (Poore & Griffin, 1979)
Species Michelea microphylla Poore, 1997
Species Michelea novaecaledoniae Poore, 1997
Species Michelea papua Poore, 2018
Species Michelea pillsburyi Kensley & Heard, 1991
Species Michelea takeda Liu & Liu, 2012
Species Michelea vandoverae (Gore, 1987)
Species Michelea paraleura Poore, 1997 accepted as Michelea leura (Poore & Griffin, 1979) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish

Original description

Kensley, B.; Heard, R.W. (1991). An examination of the shrimp family Callianideidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 104: 493-537. [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Michelea Kensley & Heard, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415633 on 2025-06-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-09-23 14:01:30Z

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db_admin

2010-05-25 06:53:52Z

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Poore, Gary C.B.

2022-07-05 10:07:07Z

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De Grave, Sammy

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Kensley, B.; Heard, R.W. (1991). An examination of the shrimp family Callianideidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 104: 493-537. [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Micheleopsis Sakai, 2010) Sakai, K. (2010). Callianassoidea from the Gulf of Tonkin and the Red Sea, in the Zoological Museum of Moscow University (Decapoda, Thalassinidea). Crustaceana. 83 : 1431-1467. [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Poore, G.C.B. (1997). A review of the thalassinidean families Callianideidae Kossmann, Micheleidae Sakai, and Thomassiniidae de Saint Laurent (Crustacea: Decapoda) with descriptions of fifteen new species. Zoosystema. 19: 345-420. [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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