WoRMS taxon details
Eogammarus oclairi Bousfield, 1979
488609 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:488609)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh
Bousfield, E. L. (1979). The amphipod superfamily Gammaroidea in the northeastern Pacific region: systematics and distributional ecology. <em>Bulletin of the Biological Society Washington.</em> 3: 297-357. [details] Available for editors 
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Note British Columbia: Mouth of Gold River,...
Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m).
Etymology The species is named in honour of Dr. Charles E. O'Clair, and Dr. Rita M. O'Clair who contributed type-material of this...
Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m). [details]
Etymology The species is named in honour of Dr. Charles E. O'Clair, and Dr. Rita M. O'Clair who contributed type-material of this...
Etymology The species is named in honour of Dr. Charles E. O'Clair, and Dr. Rita M. O'Clair who contributed type-material of this species, and other valuable gammaroidean material to this study, and who are effectively pioneering marine systematics-ecology on the Pacific coast of North America. [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Eogammarus oclairi Bousfield, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=488609 on 2025-06-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Bousfield, E. L. (1979). The amphipod superfamily Gammaroidea in the northeastern Pacific region: systematics and distributional ecology. <em>Bulletin of the Biological Society Washington.</em> 3: 297-357. [details] Available for editors [request]
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additional source
Tomikawa, K.; Morino, H.; Toft, J.; Mawatari, S. F. (2006). A revision of Eogammarus Birstein, 1933 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Anisogammaridae), with a description of a new species. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 40(17-18): 1083-1148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930600828859 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m). [details]Etymology The species is named in honour of Dr. Charles E. O'Clair, and Dr. Rita M. O'Clair who contributed type-material of this species, and other valuable gammaroidean material to this study, and who are effectively pioneering marine systematics-ecology on the Pacific coast of North America. [details]
Habitat River mouths, estuaries, intertidal zone [details]
Type locality British Columbia: Mouth of Gold River, Muchalet Inlet, Vancouver Island [details]
Type material Holotype male,CMNC. Paratypes: male, 12.0 mm, CMNC 1980-0459; female, 13.5 mm, CMNC 1982-323. [details]
