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DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

AfReMaS taxon details

Sphaerodromia nux Alcock, 1900

212482  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212482)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Brachyura (Infraorder)
  12. Dromiacea (Section)
  13. Dromioidea (Superfamily)
  14. Sphaerodromiidae (Family)
  15. Sphaerodromia (Genus)
  16. Sphaerodromia nux (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Alcock, A. (1900). Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 5. Brachyura Primigenia or Dromiacea. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 68(II)(3): 123-169., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35558166 [details] OpenAccess publication
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Sphaerodromia nux Alcock, 1900. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212482 on 2025-04-04
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Sphaerodromia nux Alcock, 1900. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212482 on 2025-04-04
Date
action
by
1998-08-10 16:56:09Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-02-25 15:57:43Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2016-05-27 07:01:41Z
changed
Davie, Peter
2020-08-18 14:02:04Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-03-14 06:23:40Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

original description Alcock, A. (1900). Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India. No. 5. Brachyura Primigenia or Dromiacea. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 68(II)(3): 123-169., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35558166 [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Deepsea) Census of Marine Life. (2012). SYNDEEP: Towards a first global synthesis of biodiversity, biogeography and ecosystem function in the deep sea. Unpublished data (datasetID: 59). [details] 

basis of record Lewinsohn, C. (1984). Dromiidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Madagascar and the Seychelles. <em>Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris.</em> 6(1): 89-129. [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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