Melita nitida Smith, 1873 
AphiaID: 146922

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Malacostraca > Eumalacostraca > Peracarida > Amphipoda > Senticaudata > Hadziida > Hadziidira > Hadzioidea > Melitidae > Melita

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Melita Leach, 1814
Sources		basis of record: Faasse, M.; Van Moorsel, G. (2003). The North-American amphipods, Melita nitida Smith, 1873 and Incisocalliope aestuarius (Watling and Maurer, 1973) (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea), introduced to the western Scheldt estuary (The Netherlands). Aquat. Ecol. 37(1): 13-22 (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: LeCroy, S. E., R. Gasca, I. Winfield, M. Ortiz, and E. Escobar-Briones. 2009. Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 941–972 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College  [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Dutch elegante honingvlokreeft  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Bath [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Cuba [details] Geul van Baarland [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Walsoorden [details] Westerschelde [details]
Feedingtypes		deposit feeder: surface [details] interface grazer [details] suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links		Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection To ITIS
Images		Melita nitida added on 2011-08-29 - author: Faasse, Marco (www.acteon.nl) () qualitystatus: not checked Melita nitida Smith, 1873 added on 2012-04-16 - author: Hillewaert, Hans qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146922
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-02-24 10:36:17Z   created   Claus, Simon 2010-03-15 11:00:52Z   checked   Costello, Mark 2010-11-09 10:34:31Z   changed   Lowry, Jim
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		Citation: Lowry, J.; Costello, M. (2013). Melita nitida Smith, 1873. In: Horton, T.; Lowry, J. & De Broyer, C. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146922 on 2013-06-19
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