Idotea metallica Bosc, 1802 
AphiaID: 119047

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Malacostraca > Eumalacostraca > Peracarida > Isopoda > Valvifera > Idoteidae > Idotea

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Idotea Fabricius, 1798
Sources		additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details] additional source: Davoult, D.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Luczak, C.; Migné, A. (1999). Nouvelles signalisations d'espèces benthiques sur les côtes françaises de la Manche orientale et de la Mer du Nord [New reports of benthic species from the french coasts of the eastern English Channel and the North Sea]. Cah. Biol. Mar. 40(2): 121-127 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Feedingtypes		omnivore [details] predator [details] scavenger [details]
Links		Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
Note		Distribution: Species, originally from North America, occurs occasionally on the British coasts and most probably is brought here by drifting algae or wood, or through the Gulf stream and North Atlantic current. [details]
Images		Idotea metallica Bosc, 1802 added on 2006-09-26 - author: BIOMARE Newsletter qualitystatus: not checked Idotea metallica Bosc, 1802 added on 2006-09-26 - author: BIOMARE Newsletter qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119047
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-01-03 13:02:48Z   checked   Schotte, Marilyn 2009-02-20 10:38:06Z   changed   Poore, Gary
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		Citation: Poore, G.; Schotte, M. (2013). Idotea metallica Bosc, 1802. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119047 on 2013-05-21