Amphipoda taxon details
original description
(of Maera festiva Chilton, 1885) Chilton, C. (1885). Notes on a few Australian Edriophthalmata. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 9: 1035-1044., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25527878 [details]
additional source
Chilton, C. (1916). Some Australian and New Zealand Gammaridae. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute.</em> 48: 359-370. [details]
redescription
Springthorpe, R. T. (2023). Melita lowryi, a new species of Melitidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from New Zealand, and the redescription of Melita festiva (Chilton, 1885) from Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 75(4): 547-558., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1892 [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
(of Maera festiva Chilton, 1885) Labay, V. S. (2016). Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). III. Genera Abludomelita Karaman, 1981 and Melita Leach, 1814. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4156(1): 1., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4156.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
(of Ledoyeromelita festiva (Chilton, 1885)) Springthorpe, R. T. (2023). Melita lowryi, a new species of Melitidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from New Zealand, and the redescription of Melita festiva (Chilton, 1885) from Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 75(4): 547-558., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1892 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Type material 2 specimens (2 micro slides), CMNZ, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia (catalogued but currently missing, Shaw & Poore, 2016: 32); 1 male, 1 female (wet specimens in alcohol), CMNZ 2015.149.154–155, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, 1 January 1884 (labelled as “cotypes”). [details]
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