Amphipoda taxon details
original description
(of Orchestia nitida Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wikles e classe Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D.Dana, Pars III (Amphipoda n°1). <em>Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 201-220. [details]
original description
(of Orchestia fuegensis Spence Bate, 1863) Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum Natural History: London.</em> i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.20901 page(s): 17 [details]
basis of record
De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Supralittoral. [details]
Habitat Mainly under algae and stones, occasionally in tide pools, from mid-water to lower high-water levels (rarely under drift debris at high-water level)… on protected and semi-protected beaches, occasionally in brackish water (Bousfield, 1982). [details]
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