WoRMS taxon details
Melita obtusata (Montagu, 1813)
AphiaID: 102841
AphiaID: 102841
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Senticaudata (Suborder) > Hadziida (Infraorder) > Hadziidira (Parvorder) > Hadzioidea (Superfamily) > Melitidae (Family) > Melita (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (Synonym) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Abludomelita obtusata (Montagu, 1813) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Melita Leach, 1814 | ||||||||||
| 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: 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] additional source: Faasse, M.; Van Moorsel, G. (2000). Nieuwe en minder bekende vlokreeftjes van sublitorale harde bodems in het Deltagebied (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) [New and lesser-known amphipods of hard substrates in the Delta area of the Netherlands (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea)]. Ned. Faunist. Meded. 11: 19-44 (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Baie de la Seine [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Golfe Normanno-Breton [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Plymouth [details] Roompot [details] Roscoff [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Voordelta [details] Walcheren [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: 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) [details] Habitat: circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Nomenclature: In the Dutch literature Abludomelita obtusata is mentioned as Melita obtusata . Karaman (1981) placed the latter species in a new genus namely Abludomelita . [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102841 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Costello, M.; Bellan-Santini, D. (2013). Melita obtusata (Montagu, 1813). In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102841 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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