Marine Species Traits - Willemoesia indica Alcock, 1901

Traits name details

Willemoesia indica Alcock, 1901

AphiaID

383225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:383225)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Willemoesia leptodactyla (Thomson, 1873)

Rank

Species

Parent

Willemoesia Grote, 1873

Original name

Willemoesia indica Alcock, 1901

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Alcock, A. (1901). A descriptive catalogue of the Indian deep-sea Crustacea Decapoda Macrura and Anomala, in the Indian Museum. Being a revised account of the deep-sea species collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator: 1-286, i-iv, pls. 1-3. Indian Museum, Calcutta. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.16083 [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Willemoesia indica Alcock, 1901. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=383225 on 2026-08-20

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Willemoesia indica Alcock, 1901. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=383225 on 2026-08-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-02-24 15:40:37Z

created

Chan, Tin-Yam

2020-12-09 13:36:06Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

2022-05-12 07:09:04Z

changed

Ahyong, Shane

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original description Alcock, A. (1901). A descriptive catalogue of the Indian deep-sea Crustacea Decapoda Macrura and Anomala, in the Indian Museum. Being a revised account of the deep-sea species collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator: 1-286, i-iv, pls. 1-3. Indian Museum, Calcutta. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.16083 [details]

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

additional source Galil, B.S. (2000). Crustacea Decapoda: review of the genera and species of the family Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. In: Crosnier, A. (ed.) (2000). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 21. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, A (Zoologie).</em> 184: 285–387. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records)