Quasimelita formosa Murdoch 1885
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Quasimelita formosa (Murdoch, 1885)
Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885: 520.— Stebbing, 1906: 427.— Gurjanova, 1951: 748.— Shoemaker, 1955: 50.— Karaman, 1981: 40.— Barnard and Barnard, 1983: 665.
Quasimelita formosa (Murdoch, 1885) — Jarret & Bousfield, 1996: 38.
Distributed throughout the shelf of Sakhalin Island (Budnikova and Bezrukov, 2003; Dzhurinskyi, 2013; our data) (Fig. 1). Also known from northern Japan and widely distributed across the Siberian and Canadian Arctic. Q. formosa was found between 70–300 m on the silty bottom with a constant low temperature (-1.2—+0.5°C). Specimens collected оutside the Sakhalin shelf occur in depths to 480 m (Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996).
Remarks. Jarrett and Bousfield (Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996: fig. 23) incorrectly described pereopods 1 and 2 in males of Q. quadrispinosa (Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996: p. 38, fig. 22), which is identical to the Q. formosa.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Melitidae
- Genus
- Quasimelita
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Murdoch
- Species
- formosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Quasimelita formosa Murdoch, 1885 sec. Labay, 2014
References
- Murdoch, J. (1885) Description of seven new species of Crustacea and one worm from Arctic Alasca. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 7, 518 - 522.
- Stebbing, T. R. R. (1906) Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. Das Tiereich, 21, 1 - 806. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 1224
- Gurjanova, E. F. (1951) Bokoplavy morei SSSR i sopredel'nykh vod (Amphipoda-Gammaridea). AN SSSR. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, 41, 1 - 1029. [in Russian]
- Shoemaker, C. R. (1955) Amphipoda collected at the Arctic Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, Pt. barrow, Alasca, by G. E. McGinite. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, 128 (1), 1 - 78.
- Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, Titograd, 27 (1), 29 - 50.
- Barnard, J. L. & Barnard, C. M. (1983) Freshwater Amphipoda of the World. Vol. I. Hayfield Associates, Virginia, 830 pp.
- Jarret, N. E. & Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (2), 3 - 74.
- Budnikova, L. L. & Bezrukov, R. G. (2003) Composition and distribution of amphipods (Amphipoda, Gammaridea, Caprellidea) on the shelf and upper slope of eastern Sakhalin Island. Izvestiya TINRO, 135, 197 - 220. [in Russian with English summary]
- Dzhurinskyi, V. L. (2013) Suborder Gammaridea. In: Sirenko, B. I. (Eds), Check-list of species of free-living invertebrates of the Russian Far Eastern seas. Explorations of the fauna of the seas, 75 (83), St. Petersburg, pp. 123 - 138.