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Arrhis phyllonyx (Sars, 1858) 
AphiaID: 102870

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Oedicerotidae (Family) > Arrhis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Arrhis Stebbing, 1906
Synonymised
taxa
  Aceros phyllonyx (Sars, 1858) (Synonym)
Leucothoe phyllonyx Sars, 1858 (basionym)
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: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English sea piglet  [details]
All child
taxa

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 Subspecies Arrhis phyllonyx arcticus Bryazgin, 1974
Subspecies Arrhis phyllonyx phyllonyx M. Sars, 1858
Environment marine
Distribution Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Kongsfjord [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtype  detritus feeder [details]
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence, 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); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland [details]

Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Arrhis phyllonyx
Arrhis phyllonyx
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Arrhis phyllonyx (Sars,  1858)
Arrhis phyllonyx (Sars, 1858)
added on 2007-01-30 - author: Moskal, Wojciech
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102870
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan-Santini, Denise
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  checked  Costello, Mark
  
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  Citation: Costello, M.; Bellan-Santini, D. (2013). Arrhis phyllonyx. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102870 on 2013-05-22
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