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Epimeria Costa 1851

Description

Genus Epimeria Costa, 1851

The most recent family diagnosis for the Epimeriidae is that of Coleman and Barnard (1991), and Barnard and Karaman (1991), respectively. The first volume of Synopsis of benthic Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean by Charles Oliver Coleman, including a key to the Antarctic species of Epimeriidae, will be published shortly.

Other

Published as part of Maas, Anne-Nina Lörz Elizabeth W., Linse, Katrin & Fenwick, Graham D., 2007, Epimeria schiaparelli sp. nov., an amphipod crustacean (family Epimeriidae) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with molecular characterisation of the species complex, pp. 23-37 in Zootaxa 1402 on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175450

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Epimeriidae
Genus
Epimeria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Costa
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Epimeria Costa, 1851 sec. Maas, Linse & Fenwick, 2007

References

  • Coleman, C. O. & Barnard, J. L. (1991) Revision of Iphimediidae and similar families (Amphipoda: Gammaridea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 104, 253 - 268.
  • Barnard, J. L. & Karaman, G. S. (1991) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine Gammaroidea). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 13, Part 1, 1 - 417, Part 2, 418 - 866.