WoRMS taxon details
Ampelisca macrocephala Liljeborg, 1852
AphiaID: 101908
AphiaID: 101908
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Ampeliscidae (Family) > Ampelisca (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Ampelisca Krøyer, 1842 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ampelisca latipes Stephensen, 1925 (Synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 295-308 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Lincoln, R.J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History): London, UK. ISBN 0-565-00818-8. vi, 658 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Celtic Sea [details] Cobscook Bay [details] East Coast of Scotland [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Grand Banks [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Irish Sea [details] Manicouagan [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Coast of England [details] West Coast of Scotland [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
detritus feeder [details]
suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Sphaeronella frontalis Hansen, 1897 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (109 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait); lower North Shore; Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101908 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Costello, M.; Bellan-Santini, D. (2013). Ampelisca macrocephala. In: Horton, T.; Lowry, J. & De Broyer, C. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101908 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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