Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Maxillopoda > Subclass Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Harpacticoida > Family Miraciidae > Subfamily Diosaccinae

Amphiascus Sars G.O., 1905

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paramphiascopsis*	Lang, 1944	synonym

Children

Amphiascus giesbrechti Sars G.O., 1906
Amphiascus longirostris (Claus, 1863) Huys, 2010
Amphiascus minutus (Claus, 1863)
Amphiascus pallidus Sars G.O., 1906
Amphiascus perplexus (Thompson I.C. & Scott A., 1903)
Amphiascus polapinquus Marcus, 1966
Amphiascus soyeri (Lang, 1965) Huys, 2010

Literature

basis of record	Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida, 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. 268-280
additional source	Walter, Chad. The world of Copepods.
additional source	Bodin, P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine harpacticoid copepods. 1997 edition. Studiedocumenten van het K.B.I.N. = Documents de Travail de l'I.R.Sc.N.B., 89. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 304 pp.
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1905). Pacifische Plankton-Crustaceen. (Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific. Schauinsland 1896-1897). II. Brackwasser-Crustaceen von den Chatham-Inseln. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik 21(4):371-414, pls. 14-20. (10-ii-1905)
additional source	Webber, W.R.; Fenwick, G.D.; Bradford-Grieve, J.M.; Eagar S.G.; Buckeridge, J.S.; Poore, G.C.B.; Dawson, E.W.; Watling, L.; Jones, J.B.; Wells, J.B.J.; Bruce, N.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Larsen, K.; Chapman, M.A.; Olesen, J.; Ho, J.; Green, J.D.; Shiel, R.J.; Rocha, C.E.F.; Lörz, A.; Bird, G.J.; Charleston, W.A. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232.
source of synonymy	Willen, E.. 2002. Notes on the systematic position of the Stenheliinae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) within the Thalestridimorpha and description of two new species from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43(1): 27-42.

Genbank

Taxonomy

3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Amphiascus
3x5 J.S. Ho Taxonomic Card - Amphiascus

External Links

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Citation

Boxshall, G.; Walter, T. Chad (2014). Amphiascus Sars G.O., 1905. In: Walter, T.C. & Boxshall, G. (2014). World of Copepods database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:115305

Drs. Danielle Defaye. Amphiascus Sars, 1905. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=238177