WoRMS taxon details
Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874
106793 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106793)
accepted
Family
Polycheles Heller, 1862 (type by monotypy)
- Subfamily Polychelinae Wood-Mason, 1874
- Genus Cardus Galil, 2000
- Genus Homeryon Galil, 2000
- Genus Pentacheles Spence Bate, 1878
- Genus Polycheles Heller, 1862
- Genus Stereomastis Spence Bate, 1888
- Genus Willemoesia Grote, 1873
- Genus Deidamia Thomson, 1873 accepted as Willemoesia Grote, 1873 (junior homonym)
- Genus Eryoneicus Spence Bate, 1882 accepted as Stereomastis Spence Bate, 1888 (Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology in Opinion 702 (ICZN, 1964))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Wood-Mason, J. (1874). [...on Blind Crustacea]. <em>Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 1874: 180-181. [details] 
Description Eyes small and lacking pigment; soft-bodied deap-sea lobsters; carapace without a rostrum, or rostrum rudimentary; telson...
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]
DecaNet eds. (2023). DecaNet. Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106793 on 2023-11-29
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original description
Wood-Mason, J. (1874). [...on Blind Crustacea]. <em>Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 1874: 180-181. [details]
context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. <em>Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú.</em> 27(1-2): 8-207. [details]
basis of record Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [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
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additional source Chan, T.-Y. (2010). Annotated Checklist of the World's Marine Lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida). <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> Suppl. 23: 153–181. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ahyong, S.T. (2009). The polychelidan lobsters: phylogeny and systematics (Polychelida: Polychelidae). <em>Crustacean Issues.</em> 18: 369–396., available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420092592-c19 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. <em>Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú.</em> 27(1-2): 8-207. [details]
basis of record Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [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
[request] additional source Chan, T.-Y. (2010). Annotated Checklist of the World's Marine Lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida). <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> Suppl. 23: 153–181. [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Ahyong, S.T. (2009). The polychelidan lobsters: phylogeny and systematics (Polychelida: Polychelidae). <em>Crustacean Issues.</em> 18: 369–396., available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420092592-c19 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
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]
| Language | Name | |
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| Japanese | センジュエビ科 | [details] |
