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Phytosus Curtis, 1838 
AphiaID: 150635

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Hexapoda (Subphylum) > Insecta (Class) > Pterygota (Subclass) > Coleoptera (Order) > Staphylinidae (Family) > Aleocharinae (Subfamily) > Phytosini (Tribe)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Phytosini
Sources  original description: Curtis, J. (1838). British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. Curtis; London. Edn. 1, Vol. 15, pls. 674–721.
page(s): 718 [details] [full text]

basis of record: Haghebaert, G. (1989). Coleoptera from marine habitats, in: Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.) (1989). Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". pp. 301-308 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Cheng, L. (Ed.) (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp., available online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/techreport/48/ [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Frank, J.H.; Ahn, K.-J. (2011). Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history. ZooKeys 107: 1-98. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subgenus Phytosus (Actosus)
  » Species Phytosus (Actosus) andalusiaensis Haghebaert, 1993
» Species Phytosus (Actosus) balticus Kraatz, 1859
» Species Phytosus (Actosus) holtzi Bernhauer, 1935
» Species Phytosus (Actosus) nigriventris (Chevrolat, 1843)
» Species Phytosus (Actosus) schatzmayri Bernhauer, 1941
» Species Phytosus (Actosus) minyops Wollaston, 1864 accepted as Phytosus (Actosus) nigriventris (Chevrolat, 1843)
Subgenus Phytosus (Phytosus)
  » Species Phytosus (Phytosus) caribeanus Haghebaert, 1993
» Species Phytosus (Phytosus) fenyesi (Bernhauer, 1915)
» Species Phytosus (Phytosus) spinifer (Curtis, 1838)
» Species Phytosus (Phytosus) dimidiatus Wollaston, 1865 accepted as Phytosus (Phytosus) spinifer (Curtis, 1838)
» Species Phytosus (Phytosus) senegalensis Wendeler, 1930 accepted as Phytosus (Phytosus) fenyesi (Bernhauer, 1915)
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Note  Habitat: sandy beach: under seaweeds & under beach sand & under debris [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150635
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-05 07:38:13Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2006-09-27 07:06:07Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-08-16 06:23:42Z  changed  Cheng, Lanna
2012-10-02 08:23:08Z  changed  Frank, J. Howard
  
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  Citation: Frank, J. Howard; Cheng, L. (2013). Phytosus Curtis, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150635 on 2013-05-21
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