CaRMS taxon details
original description
(of Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885) Murdoch, J. 1885. Description of seven new species of Crustacea and one worm from Artic Alaska. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 7: 518-522., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306312 [details]
new combination reference
Jarrett N.E. & Bousfield E.L. (1996). The Amphipod Superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific Coast of North America: Family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita Group: Systematics and Distributional Ecology. Amphipacifica, 2, 2, 3-74. [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Distribution Recorded by Shoemaker (1955) commonly at Pt. Barrow Alaska.Also known from northern Japan. Widely distributed across the Siberian and Canadian Arctic, in depths to 480 m. [details]
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