Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Pterygota

Coleoptera

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Adephaga
Archostemata
Myxophaga
Polyphaga

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: kevers
 English: beetles sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 French: coléoptères
 German: Käfer sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Greek: Κολεόπτερα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Italian: coleotteri sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Japanese: 甲虫/鞘翅目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Lithuanian: vabalai sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian: biller sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: chrząszcze sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Russian: жесткокрылые; жуки sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Slovenian: hrošči sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: skalbaggar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Turkish: kınkanatlılar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Ukrainian: жуки; твердокрилі

Literature

basis of record

Legakis, A. (2001). Insecta, 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. 323-324

additional source

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Coleoptera. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118085

Taxonomic Coordinator. Coleoptera. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/8fc49a7e-dc4d-4c56-ab04-53a1556c55ca

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118085
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:10993

Last modified

2004-12-21 by Taxonomic Coordinator & by Anastasios Legakis

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