WoRMS taxon details
Talorchestia spinipalma (Dana, 1852)
557178 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:557178)
accepted
Species
Orchestia spinipalma Dana, 1852 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Orchestia spinipalma Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wikles e classe Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D.Dana, Pars III (Amphipoda n°1). <em>Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 201-220.
page(s): 203 [details]
page(s): 203 [details]
Neotype AM P.87317, geounit Tongan Exclusive Economic...
Neotype AM P.87317, geounit Tongan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Depth range Supralittoral.
Depth range Supralittoral. [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. Talorchestia spinipalma (Dana, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=557178 on 2025-10-12
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Orchestia spinipalma Dana, 1852) Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wikles e classe Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D.Dana, Pars III (Amphipoda n°1). <em>Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 201-220.
page(s): 203 [details]
page(s): 203 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Lowry, J. K.; Bopiah, A. (2013). The talitrid amphipods of Tonga (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3681(4): 347., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3681.4.2 [details] Available for editors 
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Lowry, J. K.; Fanini, L. (2023). The coastal talitroid amphipods of New Caledonia (Amphipoda: Talitroidea). <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 75(4): 471-484., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1886 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Neotype AM P.87317, geounit Tongan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Depth range Supralittoral. [details]Habitat Marine, under wrack, supralittoral. [details]
Remark Serejo & Lowry recently collected Talorchestia terrareginae Haswell, 1880 (currently in synonymy with T. spinipalma (Dana, 1852), from Port Denison, Queensland, the type locality. They intend to redescribe the species, but the orignal description of T. spinipalma is not detailed and the matter of synonymy may be hard to resolve. This outcome may affect the distribution records of T. spinipalma.
Morino & Miyamoto, 1988, state that the description of T. spinipalma (Dana, 1852) differs from the Kusaie Island and Rennell Island material in having an elongate dactylus on male gnathopod 2 and pereopod 4 similar to pereopod 3. [details]
