WoRMS taxon details
Melphidippella macra (Norman, 1869)
AphiaID: 102860
AphiaID: 102860
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Melphidippidae (Family) > Melphidippella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Melphidippella Sars, 1894 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Atylus macer Norman, 1869 (basionym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Norman, A.M. 1869a. Shetland final dredging report. Part II. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Portifera. Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 38: 247-336. [details] 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: 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: Bachelet, G.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Sorbe, J.C. (2003). An updated checklist of marine and brackish water Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the southern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic). Cah. Biol. Mar. 44(2): 121-151 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Arcachon Bay [details] Baie de la Seine [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Cap Ferret canyon [details] East Coast of England [details] East Coast of Ireland [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Golfe Normanno-Breton [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Isle of Man [details] North Coast of Ireland [details] North East Coast of England [details] Plymouth [details] Roscoff [details] Shetlands [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: According to Aslan-Cihangir, Sezgin & Tuncer (2009) M. macra has been found on muddy bottoms at 19 m depth. This species has been reported from muddy bottoms principally in the circalittoral zone, and in the water column during the night (Ledoyer, 1993). Generally, this species is distributed in a depth range from 10 to 200 m (Lincoln, 1979). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102860 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Costello, M.; Bellan-Santini, D. (2013). Melphidippella macra (Norman, 1869). In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102860 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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