WoRMS taxon details
Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1875
AphiaID: 106793
AphiaID: 106793
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Macrura Reptantia (Suborder) > Polychelida (Infraorder) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Polychelida | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Chan, T.Y., 2010. Annotated Checklist of the World’s Marine Lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 23: 153–181. [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Cardus Galil, 2000 Genus Homeryon Galil, 2000 Genus Pentacheles Bate, 1878 Genus Polycheles Heller, 1862 Genus Stereomastis Bate, 1888 Genus Willemoesia Grote, 1873 Genus Deidamia accepted as Willemoesia Grote, 1873 Genus Eryoneicus Bate, 1888 accepted as Polycheles Heller, 1862 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: Authority taken from d'Udekem d'Acoz [details] Classification: Included in infraordo Eryonidea de Haan, 1841 by d'Udekem d'Acoz [details] Description: Eyes small and lacking pigment; soft-bodied deap-sea lobsters; carapace without a rostrum, or rostrum rudimentary; telson of fan-tail pointed; first four or all legs with pincers, first pair enlarged; antennae cylindrical, shorter than body. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106793 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Chan, T.; Türkay, M. (2013). Polychelidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106793 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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