WoRMS taxon details
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]
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]
From editor or global species database
Basionym Eogammarus oclairi [details]
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]
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