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Chiridotea coeca (Say, 1818)

157842  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157842)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Valvifera (Suborder)
  11. Chaetiliidae (Family)
  12. Chiridotea (Genus)
  13. Chiridotea coeca (Species)
accepted
Species
Chiridotea caeca (Say, 1818) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Chiridotea nigrescens Wigley, 1961 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Idotea coeca Say, 1818 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Idotea coeca Say, 1818) Say, T. (1818). An account of the Crustacea of the United States (concluded). Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. 1(2): 423-441. [details] OpenAccess publication
Depth range 31  
Depth range 31 [details]

Distribution Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod  
Distribution Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Chiridotea coeca (Say, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157842 on 2025-04-07
Date
action
by
2005-05-24 07:32:08Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
checked
Schotte, Marilyn
2009-02-20 10:38:06Z
changed
Poore, Gary C.B.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Chiridotea nigrescens Wigley, 1961) Wigley, R. L. (1961). A new isopod, Chiridotea nigrescens, from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Crustaceana. 2: 286-292. [details] 

original description (of Idotea coeca Say, 1818) Say, T. (1818). An account of the Crustacea of the United States (concluded). Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. 1(2): 423-441. [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

additional source Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details] 

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Syntype (of Idotea coeca Say, 1818) ANSP, verbatimGeounit Coasts of United Sta... [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 31 [details]

Unreviewed
Distribution Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod [details]

Habitat Found in the intertidal zone. [details]

Synonymy Synonym: Chiridotea nigrescens Wigley, 1961, according to King & Cawood, 2007. [details]
    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Chiridotea caeca (Say, 1818))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Chiridotea nigrescens Wigley, 1961)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chiridotea coeca) 
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Idotea coeca Say, 1818)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To PESI (from synonym Chiridotea caeca (Say, 1818))
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Idotea coeca Say, 1818)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (106 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Chiridotea nigrescens Wigley, 1961)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 106382) (from synonym Chiridotea nigrescens Wigley, 1961)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 103004) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 103004)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 103004)
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