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Maera danae Stimpson, 1853 
AphiaID: 158037

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Senticaudata (Suborder) > Hadziida (Infraorder) > Hadziidira (Parvorder) > Hadzioidea (Superfamily) > Maeridae (Family) > Maera (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Maera Leach, 1814
Synonymised
taxa
  Maera dubia Calman, 1898
Maera prionochira Bruggen, 1907
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

from synonym: Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda, 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. 295-308 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (20 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Cobscook Bay [details]

Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Taxonomy: Family: Melitidae, according to Trott (2004). [details]
Image 
Maera danae
Maera danae
added on 2012-07-13 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158037
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-10-20 13:29:09Z  checked  Lowry, Jim
  
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  Citation: Lowry, J. (2013). Maera danae Stimpson, 1853. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158037 on 2013-05-21
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