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Microprotopus maculatus Norman 1867

  • 1. Animal Taxonomy and Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan- 384265, Gujarat, India dimplethacker 789 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3101 - 0028
  • 2. Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Lab, Department of Zoology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India kjpatel 8460 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0810 - 4210
  • 3. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland bavayia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3256 - 2123
  • 4. Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda Reina Mercedes 6, 41012, Sevilla, Spain jmguerra @ us. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6050 - 4997
  • 5. Department of Marine Invertebrates, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia SA 5000 wolfgang. zeidler @ samuseum. sa. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4133 - 9698 Corresponding author: jntrivedi 26 @ yahoo. co. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1308 - 7104

Description

142. Microprotopus maculatus Norman, 1867

Type locality: Tobermory, Mull, Scotland.

Synonyms: Microprotopus terschellingi (Hoek, 1879).

Distribution. World: Scotland (Norman 1867), Bay of Biscay (Bachelet et al. 2003), North Atlantic Ocean (Borges et al. 2010), Mediterranean Sea (Koukouras 2010), Ireland (Guiry & Guiry 2011), India (Nayar 1959).

India: Eastern India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Nayar 1959; Venkataraman 2007; Thilagavathi et al. 2013); Northern Bay of Bengal: Bay of Bengal (Surya Rao 1972).

Remarks: Report from India requires confirmation.

Notes

Published as part of Thacker, Dimple, Patel, Krupal, Myers, Alan, Guerra-García, José M., Zeidler, Wolfgang & Trivedi, Jigneshkumar, 2023, Annotated Checklist of Marine Amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of India, pp. 1-90 in Zootaxa 5340 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8324090

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  • Norman, A. M. (1867) Report of the committee appointed for the purpose of exploring the coasts of the Hebrides by means of the dredge. - Part II. On the Crustacea, Echinodermata, Polyzoa, Actinozoa, and Hydrozoa. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 36, 193 - 206.
  • Bachelet, G., Dauvin, J. C. & Sorbe, J. C. (2003) An updated checklist of marine and brackish water Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the southern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 44 (2), 121 - 152.
  • Borges, P. A. V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Goncalves, V., Martins, A. F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R. S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.) (2010) Chapter 14: Lista de invertebrados marinhos costeiros. In: Costa, A. C. (Ed.), A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Principia, Oeiras, 432 pp. pp. 287 - 324.
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  • Nayar, K. N. (1959) Amphipoda of the Madras coast. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, 6 (3), 15 - 76.
  • Venkataraman, K. (2007) Amphipoda. In: Fauna of Chennai Coast. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 61 - 64.
  • Thilagavathi, B., Varadharajan, D., Babu, A., Manoharan, J., Vijayalakshmi, S. & Balasubramanian, T. (2013) Distribution and diversity of macrobenthos in different mangrove ecosystems of Tamil Nadu coast, India. Journal of Aquaculture Research and Development, 4 (6), 1 - 12.
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