Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Chelicerata > Class Pycnogonida > Order Pantopoda > Suborder Eupantopodida > Superfamily Ammotheoidea > Family Ammotheidae > Subfamily Achelinae > Genus Achelia

Achelia assimilis (Haswell, 1885)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Achelia*	Hodge, 1864	accepted genus name
*Ammothea (Achelia)*		synonym
*Austrothea*	Hodgson, 1915	synonym

Species group names

*Achelia variabilis*	Stock, 1954	synonym
*Achelia wilsoni*	(Schimkewitsch, 1890)	synonym
*Nymphopsis denticulata*	Gordon, 1932	misapplied name

Literature

basis of record	Pycnobase
additional source	Munilla, T.; Soler Membrives, A. (2008). Check-list of the pycnogonids from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters: zoogeographic implications. Antarctic Science. 21(02): 99.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Sirvid, P.J.;Zhang, Z.; Harvey, M.S.; Rhode, B.E.; Cook, D.R.; Bartsch, I.; Staples, D.A. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Chelicerata: horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, arachnids, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 50-89.

Genbank

Citation

Bamber, R.N.; El Nagar, A.; Arango, C.P.; Sabroux, R. (Eds) (2025). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database. Achelia assimilis (Haswell, 1885). 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:240271