Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Mysida > Family Petalophthalmidae > Subfamily Petalophthalminae

Petalophthalmus Willemoes-Suhm, 1874

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Petalophthalmus armiger Willemoes-Suhm, 1875
Petalophthalmus papilloculatus San Vicente, Frutos & Cartes, 2014

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ペタロフタルムス属

Literature

original description	von Willemoes-Suhm, R. (1875). On some Atlantic Crustacea from the Challenger Expedition. Trans. Linn. Soc. of Lond., Zool. I(Part the First). 23-59, plates VI-XIII.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Brattegard, T. (2001). Mysidacea. 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. 293-295.
additional source	Tattersall, O. S. (1955). Mysidacea. Discovery Rep. 28: 1-190.
additional source	Müller, H. G. (1993). World catalogue and bibliography of the recent Mysidacea. 238p.
additional source	Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea.
additional source	Wooldridge, T. H.; Mees, J. (2011 onwards). World List of the Mysidacea.
identification resource	San Vicente, C.; Corbari, L. (2015). A new bathyal mysid of the family Petalophthalmidae (Crustacea: Mysida) from the Bismarck Sea (Western Tropical Pacific Ocean). Zootaxa. 3925(2): 241.
identification resource	Vicente, C. S.; Frutos, I.; Cartes, J. E. (2014). Petalophthalmus papilloculatus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Mysida: Petalophthalmidae), a new bathyal suprabenthic mysid from the Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa. 3765(1): 77.

Genbank

Citation

Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Väinölä, R. (Eds) (2012 onwards). World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida. Petalophthalmus Willemoes-Suhm, 1874. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:119914