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Halobates Eschscholtz, 1822

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Eschscholtz, J.F. (1822). Entomographien. Erste Lieferung. G. Reimer, Berlin. 128 pp.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Hemiptera
family
Gerridae
genus
Halobates

Name

Synonyms
Euratas Distant, 1910
Fabatus Distant, 1910
Homonyms
Halobates Eschscholtz, 1822
Common names
sea skater in English
sea skaters in English
Клопы-водомерки in Russian
ウミアメンボ属 in Japanese
海黽屬 in Chinese
바다소금쟁이속 in Korean
sea skaters in English
ウミアメンボ属 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Andersen, N.M.; Cheng, L. (2004). The marine insect <i>Halobates</i> (Heteroptera: Gerridae): biology, adaptations, distribution and phylogeny. <em>Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev.</em> 42: 119-180.
  2. Andersen, Nils Møller, and Tom A. Weir, 1994: The Sea Skaters, Genus Halobates Eschscholtz (Hemiptera: Gerridae), of Australia: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Zoogeography. Invertebrate Taxonomy, vol. 8, no. 4. 861-909.
  3. Aukema, Berend, and Christian Rieger, eds., 1995: null. Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. xxvi + 222.
  4. Cheng, 1989
  5. Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp.
  6. CoL 2006
  7. Eschscholtz, J.F. (1822). Entomographien. Erste Lieferung. G. Reimer, Berlin. 128 pp.
  8. Foster, W.A. & J.E. Treherne (1986). The ecology and behaviour of a marine insect, Halobates fijiensis (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86: 391-412.
  9. Henry, Thomas J., and Richard C. Froeschner, eds., 1988: null. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. xix + 958.
  10. Herring, J. L. (1959). The genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae). University of California, Berkeley.
  11. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  12. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  13. Román-Palacios, C.; Damgaard, J.; Cheng, L.; Moreira, F. F. F.; Ikawa, T.; Weir, T. A.; Zettel, H. (2018). Molecular phylogeny of sea-skaters (Halobates ), relationship between Halobatini and Metrocorini, and a catalogue of the subfamily Halobatinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae). <em>Insect Systematics & Evolution.</em> 1-102.
  14. SN2000/Storer et al., 1979
  15. SN2000/Storer et al., 1979
  16. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
  17. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
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