Platorchestia platensis Griffiths et al. 2009
- 1. Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Biological Station, New Brunswick, Canada;
- 2. Bermuda Natural History Museum, Aquarium and Zoo, Flatt's, Bermuda;
- 3. Department of Integrative Biology & Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada;
- 4. Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Description
Platorchestia platensis (KrØyer, 1845) BOLD:AAA2949
As Orchestia platensis KrØyer 1845, p. 304, fig. 2; Platorchestia platensis (KrØyer 1845), Bousfield 1982, p. 26.
Material examinedFrom the following sampling locations: 8C, 14A, 14C, 16B (see Table 1 and Figure 2 for further details).
DistributionFound on similar sand beaches and under similar wrack piles as P. monodi. Found in single species samples (that is all three individuals analysed = BOLD:AAA2949), all on the northwest coast of Bermuda at Bailey ’ s Bay (8C), Tynes Bay (14C) and Lagoon Park (16B). One other sample at Tobacco Bay Park (14A) was a mixed sample containing one P. platensis and two P. monodi. Other locations on the northwest coast consisted of single species P. monodi, e.g. Coot Pond (14B), Gibbon ’ s Bay (7A) and Stovell ’ s Bay (5B).
RemarksDuring this study this species was first recognized by its distinct molecular signature, which matched specimens identified as P. platensis from BOLD and GenBank. The same species is common on the Atlantic coast of North America, north of Charleston, North Carolina to New Brunswick (Radulovici 2012). Formalin-preserved specimens have not been checked for the possible occurrence of the two species of Platorchestia by morphological criteria, with the exception of sample 8C.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BOLD
- Family
- Talitridae
- Genus
- Platorchestia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Griffiths et al.
- Species
- platensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platorchestia platensis et, 2009 sec. Wildish, Smith, Loeza-Quintana, Radulovici & Adamowicz, 2016
References
- KrOyer H. 1845. Karcinologiske Bidrag. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 1: 304. Fig. 2.
- Bousfield EL. 1982. The amphipod superfamily Talitroidea in the northeastern Pacific region. 1. Family Talitridae: systematics and distributional ecology. Ottawa: Publications in Biological Oceanography, No. 11; p. 73.
- Radulovici AE. 2012. A tale of two biodiversity levels inferred from DNA barcoding of selected North Atlantic crustaceans. [Ph. D. thesis]. Rimouski (QC): University of Quebec at Rimouski; p. 245.