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DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

WoRMS taxon details

Pentacheles obscurus Spence Bate, 1878

382980  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382980)

  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. Polychelida (Infraorder)
  12. Eryonoidea (Superfamily)
  13. Polychelidae (Family)
  14. Polychelinae (Subfamily)
  15. Pentacheles (Genus)
  16. Pentacheles obscurus (Species)
accepted
Species
Pentacheles carpenteri Alcock, 1894 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Polycheles carpenteri (Alcock, 1894) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Polycheles obscurus (Spence Bate, 1878) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bate, C. S. (1878). XXXII. On the <i>Willemoesia</i> Group of Crustacea. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 5)2: 273–283, pl. 13. [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  BMNH 1888.22, geounit Bismarck Sea  
Holotype BMNH 1888.22, geounit Bismarck Sea [details]
, Type locality contained in New Guinea  
type locality contained in New Guinea [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Pentacheles obscurus Spence Bate, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382980 on 2025-04-04
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2009-02-23 14:08:32Z
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Chan, Tin-Yam
2019-10-30 12:52:46Z
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De Grave, Sammy
2022-01-28 18:10:38Z
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De Grave, Sammy

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Nomenclature

original description Bate, C. S. (1878). XXXII. On the <i>Willemoesia</i> Group of Crustacea. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 5)2: 273–283, pl. 13. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Pentacheles carpenteri Alcock, 1894) Alcock, A. (1894). XXV.— Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator,' Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., Commanding .—Series II., No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890–91 (cont.) [part 1]. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6.</em> 13: 225-245., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939408677694 [details] OpenAccess publication

Taxonomy

source of synonymy 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  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype BMNH 1888.22, geounit Bismarck Sea [details]
    Definitions

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pentacheles obscurus) 
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)