ERMS taxon details
Quasimelita formosa (Murdoch, 1885)
423709 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:423709)
accepted
Species
Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885) Murdoch, J. (1885). Description of seven new species of Crustacea and one worm from Arctic Alaska. -. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 7: 518-522., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306312 [details] 
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Quasimelita formosa (Murdoch, 1885). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=423709 on 2025-05-10
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Quasimelita formosa (Murdoch, 1885). Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=423709 on 2025-05-10
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original description
(of Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885) Murdoch, J. (1885). Description of seven new species of Crustacea and one worm from Arctic Alaska. -. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 7: 518-522., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306312 [details]
new combination reference Jarrett N.E. & Bousfield E.L. (1996). The Amphipod Superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific Coast of North America: Family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita Group: Systematics and Distributional Ecology. Amphipacifica, 2, 2, 3-74. [details] Available for editors
new combination reference Jarrett N.E. & Bousfield E.L. (1996). The Amphipod Superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific Coast of North America: Family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita Group: Systematics and Distributional Ecology. Amphipacifica, 2, 2, 3-74. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Melita formosa) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To PESI (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To The Arctic Traits Database (14 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Melita formosa) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To PESI (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To The Arctic Traits Database (14 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) (from synonym Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Image from synonym
