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Blepharipoda

genus of crustaceans

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ4926094 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blepharipoda is a genus of mole crabs, containing the following species:

Blepharipoda doelloi Schmitt, 1942

Blepharipoda liberata Shen, 1949

Blepharipoda occidentalis Randall, 1840

Blepharipoda spinosa (H. Milne-Edwards & Lucas, 1841)

Blepharipoda liberata is harvested for food in China.

Editorial summary

“Blepharipoda” enters the record as genus of crustaceans. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Blepharipoda, genus and crustaceans can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1949, 1840, 1841—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Blepharipoda, genus and crustaceans.
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Why this record matters

“Blepharipoda” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Blepharipoda, genus and crustaceans provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4926094. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1949, 1840 and 1841.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blepharipoda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.