North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Psammastacus Apostolov & Marinov, 1988

AphiaID

534124 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:534124)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Psammastacus confluens (Nicholls, 1935) (type by original designation)

Parent

Leptastacidae Lang, 1948

Original name

Psammastacus Apostolov & Marinov, 1988

Direct children (2)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Species Psammastacus confluens (Nicholls, 1935)
Species Psammastacus brevicaudatus Nicholls, 1935 accepted as Psammastacus confluens (Nicholls, 1935) (synonym according to Huys (1992))

Environment

marine

Original description

Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). [Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids).]. Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia. 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.). [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Psammastacus Apostolov & Marinov, 1988. 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=534124 on 2026-03-23

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Psammastacus Apostolov & Marinov, 1988. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=534124 on 2026-03-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-10-17 15:51:20Z

created

Boxshall, Geoff

2014-04-01 09:58:43Z

changed

Boxshall, Geoff

2015-09-03 06:24:32Z

changed

Walter, T. Chad

2024-03-10 14:07:00Z

changed

Walter, T. Chad

[taxonomic tree]

[clear cache]

original description Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). [Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids).]. Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia. 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.). [details] Available for editors

status source Huys, R. (2009). Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda). Zootaxa. 2183:1-99., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/2/zt02183p099.pdf [details] Available for editors

Definitions

[show lower level...]

To ITIS