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Hyalella azteca (Saussure, 1858) 
AphiaID: 158105

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Senticaudata (Suborder) > Talitrida (Infraorder) > Talitridira (Parvorder) > Talitroidea (Superfamily) > Hyalellidae (Family) > Hyalella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hyalella S. I. Smith, 1874
Synonymised
taxa
  Hyalella dentata S.I. smith, 1874
Hyalella fluvialis Lockington, 1877
Hyalella inermis S.I. Smith, 1875
Hyalella knickerbockeri Bate, 1862
Hyalella ornata Pearse, 1911
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Bousfield E.L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 312 pp. [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (355 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (301 nucleotides; 206 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: North and Central America and Caribbean Islands [details]

Habitat: Found from shallow waters to 30 feet depth in sand and under stones. [details]

Reproduction: ovigerous females in April to October [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158105
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-07-16 07:17:00Z  changed  Lowry, Jim
  
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  Citation: Lowry, J. (2013). Hyalella azteca (Saussure, 1858). In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158105 on 2013-05-21
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