WoRMS taxon details
Cheiriphotis Walker, 1904
205619 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205619)
accepted
Genus
Melita megacheles Giles, 1885 accepted as Cheiriphotis megacheles (Giles, 1885) (type by monotypy)
Cheirophotis Walker, 1904 · unaccepted (lapsus calami)
- Species Cheiriphotis australiae Stebbing, 1910
- Species Cheiriphotis delloyei Pirlot, 1934
- Species Cheiriphotis durbanensis K.H. Barnard, 1916
- Species Cheiriphotis erythraeus Ruffo, 1969
- Species Cheiriphotis madagascarensis Ledoyer, 1979
- Species Cheiriphotis mediterranea Myers, 1983
- Species Cheiriphotis megacheles (Giles, 1885)
- Species Cheiriphotis minima Ledoyer, 1982
- Species Cheiriphotis neotropicalis Valério-Berardo, Thiago de Souza & Rodrigues, 2007
- Species Cheiriphotis pediformis Myers, 1995
- Species Cheiriphotis petronioi Souza-Filho, Souza & Valério-Berardo, 2012
- Species Cheiriphotis rotui Myers, 1989
- Species Cheiriphotis selat Azman & Wonkamhaeng, 2024
- Species Cheiriphotis trifurcata Wongkamhaeng, Azman & Puttapreecha, 2012
- Species Cheiriphotis walkeri Stebbing, 1918
- Species Cheiriphotis williamsoni Salman & Jabbar, 1990
- Species Cheiriphotis geniculata (K.H. Barnard, 1935) accepted as Photis geniculata K.H. Barnard, 1935 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Cheiriphotis quadrichelatus Ortiz & Lalana, 1997 accepted as Kamaka quadrichelatus (Ortiz & Lalana, 1997) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Walker, A. O. (1904). Report on the Amphipoda collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, with supplementary reports upon the marine biology of Ceylon. Part II. The Royal Society, London.</em> 229-300; 8 pls. [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. Cheiriphotis Walker, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205619 on 2025-11-11
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Martinez, Olga
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Nomenclature
original description
Walker, A. O. (1904). Report on the Amphipoda collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, with supplementary reports upon the marine biology of Ceylon. Part II. The Royal Society, London.</em> 229-300; 8 pls. [details] 
basis of record Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
basis of record Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Wongkamhaeng, K.; Abdul Rahim, A.; Puttapreecha, R. (2012). Cheiriphotis trifurcata, new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Corophiidae, Protomedeiinae) from the Seagrass Bed of the Lower Gulf of Thailand. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 187: 71-89., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.187.3219 [details] 
identification resource Azman, A. R.; Wongkamhaeng, K. (2024). A New Amphipod Species of the Genus Cheriphotis (Amphipoda, Senticaudata) from Pulau Langkawi, Straits of Malacca, Malaysia with Notes on the Distribution of the Genus. <em>Tropical Natural History.</em> 24(1): 172-181. [details] Available for editors
[request]
identification resource Azman, A. R.; Wongkamhaeng, K. (2024). A New Amphipod Species of the Genus Cheriphotis (Amphipoda, Senticaudata) from Pulau Langkawi, Straits of Malacca, Malaysia with Notes on the Distribution of the Genus. <em>Tropical Natural History.</em> 24(1): 172-181. [details] Available for editors
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality