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Quasimelita quadrispinosa Vosseler 1889
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Quasimelita quadrispinosa (Vosseler, 1889)
Melita quadrispinosa Vosseler, 1889: 157.— Stebbing, 1906: 422.— Gurjanova, 1951: 751.— Karaman, 1981: 41.— Barnard and Barnard, 1983: 666.
Quasimelita quadrispinosa (Vosseler, 1889) — Jarret & Bousfield, 1996: 36.
Distributed throughout the northern shelf of Sakhalin Island (our data) (Fig. 1). Outside the Sakhalin shelf recorded from the Barents, Chukchi and Bering Seas. Q. quadrispinosa was found between 70–300 m on the silty and sandsilty bottom with a constant low temperature (-1.2 – +0.5°C).
Notes
Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2014, Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934, pp. 237-280 in Zootaxa 3869 (3) on page 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/251715
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Melitidae
- Genus
- Quasimelita
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Vosseler
- Species
- quadrispinosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Quasimelita quadrispinosa Vosseler, 1889 sec. Labay, 2014
References
- Vosseler, J. (1889) Amphipoden und Isopoden von Spitzbergen. Beitrage zur Fauna Spitsbergene. Resultate einer im Jahre 1886 unternommen Reise von. Dr. Willy Kukenthal-Jena. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 55, 151 - 162.
- 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]
- 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.