Melita choshigawaensis

Melita choshigawaensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Hadzioidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Peracarida Ordo: Amphipoda Subordo: Gammaridea Superfamilia: Hadzioidea

Familia: Melitidae
Genus: Melita
Species: Melita choshigawaensis

Name

Melita choshigawaensis Tomikawa et al., 2018

ZooBank: C10A0F95-5419-4534-8923-07D8C2E77F17

Holotype: NSMT-Cr 25826, male (BL 5.3 mm).

Type locality: Choshi River, Kihoku, Mie Prefecture, Japan (34.108242°N, 136.221998°E), col. Ko Tomikawa, Kentaro Hirashima, Atsushi Hirai, and Ryu Uchiyama, 2 March 2017.

Paratypes:

NSMT-Cr. 25827, male (BL 4.1 mm), same data as holotype.

NSMT-Cr. 25828, male (BL 6.8 mm), 27 December 2017, locality and collectors as for holotype.

NSMT-Cr. 25829, female (BL 5.8 mm), 27 December 2017, locality and collectors as for holotype.

Etymology: derived from the name of the type locality.

References

• Tomikawa, K., Hirashima, K., Hirai, A. & Uchiyama, R. 2018. A new species of Melita from Japan (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Melitidae). ZooKeys 760: 73–88. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.760.24778 Reference page. 

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Links

• Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Coleman, C.O.; 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.; Sket, B.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2020). World Amphipoda Database. Melita choshigawaensis Tomikawa, Hirashima, Hirai & Uchiyama, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1255384 on 2020-06-15

• BHL bibliography
• Melita choshigawaensis – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Melita choshigawaensis.
• ION

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