North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Alitropus H. Milne Edwards, 1840

AphiaID

118395 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118395)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Aegidae White, 1850

Original name

Alitropus H. Milne Edwards, 1840

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Species Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Species Alitropus foveolatus Schiödte & Meinert, 1879 accepted as Alitropus typus H. Milne Edwards, 1840

Environment

~~marine~~, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Milne Edwards, H. (1834–1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Comprenant l´Anatomie, la Physiologie et la Classification de ces Animaux, Vol I (1834): i–xxxv + 1–468, Vol. II (1837): 1–532, Vol. III (1840): 1–638; atlas: 1–32, pls. 1–42. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16170#/summary [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Alitropus H. Milne Edwards, 1840. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118395 on 2026-06-21

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Alitropus H. Milne Edwards, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=118395 on 2026-06-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-05 06:52:51Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2007-11-28 15:20:16Z

checked

Schotte, Marilyn

2008-02-05 00:00:35Z

changed

Bruce, Niel L.

2019-05-24 09:00:53Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2023-07-05 03:09:29Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Milne Edwards, H. (1834–1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, Comprenant l´Anatomie, la Physiologie et la Classification de ces Animaux, Vol I (1834): i–xxxv + 1–468, Vol. II (1837): 1–532, Vol. III (1840): 1–638; atlas: 1–32, pls. 1–42. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16170#/summary [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, 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. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Bruce, N. L. (1983). Aegidae (Isopoda,Crustacea) from Australia with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Natural History. 17(5): 757-788., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938300770591 [details] Available for editors

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]

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