WoRMS taxon details
Grandidierella megnae (Giles, 1890)
488814 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:488814)
accepted
Species
Grandidierella bonnieri Stebbing, 1908 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Microdeutopus megnae Giles, 1890 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Microdeutopus megnae Giles, 1890) Giles, G. M. (1890). Natural history notes from H.M.'s Indian marine survey steamer "Investigator" , commander Alfred Carpenter, R.N. commanding. N° 9. Further notes on the Amphipoda of Indian waters. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 57: 220-255. [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. (2026). World Amphipoda Database. Grandidierella megnae (Giles, 1890). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=488814 on 2026-08-23
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Microdeutopus megnae Giles, 1890) Giles, G. M. (1890). Natural history notes from H.M.'s Indian marine survey steamer "Investigator" , commander Alfred Carpenter, R.N. commanding. N° 9. Further notes on the Amphipoda of Indian waters. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> 57: 220-255. [details]
original description (of Grandidierella bonnieri Stebbing, 1908) Stebbing T.R.R. (1908a). The fauna of the brackish ponds at Port Canning, Lower Bengal. Part 9. A new species of Amphipoda. Records of the Indian Museum, 2, pp. 119-123;pl. 6., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v2/i2/1908/163321 [details]
basis of record Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Grandidierella bonnieri Stebbing, 1908) Stebbing T.R.R. (1908a). The fauna of the brackish ponds at Port Canning, Lower Bengal. Part 9. A new species of Amphipoda. Records of the Indian Museum, 2, pp. 119-123;pl. 6., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v2/i2/1908/163321 [details]
basis of record Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Thacker, D. R.; Patro, S.; Bhoi, G.; Myers, A. A.; Kumar, R. K.; Trivedi, J. N. (2025). On the genus Grandidierella Coutière, 1904 (Amphipoda: Aoridae) of India with the description of two new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5716(4): 451-482., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.4.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Grandidierella bonnieri Stebbing, 1908)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Grandidierella megnae)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records) (from synonym Grandidierella bonnieri Stebbing, 1908)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Grandidierella megnae)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records) (from synonym Grandidierella bonnieri Stebbing, 1908)
