North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Achelia japonica Ortmann, 1890

AphiaID

244388 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244388)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Achelia Hodge, 1864

Original name

Achelia japonica Ortmann, 1890

Synonymised names

Achelia echinata japonica Ortmann, 1890 · unaccepted

Achelia echinata nasuta Marcus, 1940 · unaccepted

Achelia echinata orientalis (Losina-Losinsky, 1933) · unaccepted

Achelia echinata sinensis (Lou, 1936) · unaccepted

Achelia sinensis Lou, 1935 · unaccepted (Junior synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Bamber, R.N.; El Nagar, A.; Arango, C.P.; Sabroux, R. (Eds) (2025). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database. Achelia japonica Ortmann, 1890. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244388 on 2026-09-10

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Achelia japonica Ortmann, 1890. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=244388 on 2026-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-07-18 14:47:13Z

created

Bamber, Roger

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Not documented

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Achelia echinata sinensis (Lou, 1936))
To PESI (from synonym Achelia echinata nasuta Marcus, 1940)
To PESI (from synonym Achelia echinata orientalis (Losina-Losinsky, 1933))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Achelia sinensis Lou, 1935)
To PESI (from synonym Achelia echinata japonica Ortmann, 1890)
To PESI (from synonym Achelia echinata sinensis (Lou, 1936))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (23 records) (from synonym Achelia echinata sinensis (Lou, 1936))