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Elasmopus rapax Costa 1853

Creators

  • 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

217. Elasmopus rapax Costa, 1853

Type locality: Gulf of Taranto.

Synonyms: Elasmopus affinis Della Valle, 1893; Elasmopus congoensis Shoemaker, 1920; Gammarus brevicaudatus H. Milne Edwards, 1830 sensu Spence Bate, 1857; Maera brevicaudata (Spence Bate, 1862); Megamoera brevicaudata Spence Bate, 1862.

Distribution. World: Gulf of Taranto (Costa 1853), South Africa (Barnard 1955), Mediterranean Sea (Ayari 2004), Gulf of Mexico (Felder & Camp 2009), Greece (Koukouras 2010), Caribbean Sea, Cuba (Miloslavich et al. 2010), North Atlantic Ocean (Borges et al. 2010), Ireland (Guiry & Guiry 2011), India (Sivaprakasam 1968a).

India: Western India Ecoregion: Arabian Sea (Surya Rao 1972); South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Sivaprakasam 1968a); Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion: Bay of Bengal (Surya Rao 1972).

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 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8324090

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Maeridae
Genus
Elasmopus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Costa
Species
rapax
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Elasmopus rapax Costa, 1853 sec. Thacker, Patel, Myers, Guerra-García, Zeidler & Trivedi, 2023

References

  • Costa, A. (1853) Relazione sulla memoria del Dottor Achille Costa, di ricerche su' crostacei amfipodi del regno di Napoli. Rendiconto della Societa Reale Borbonica, Accademia delle Scienze, New Series, 2, 167 - 178. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 2070
  • Della Valle, A. (1893) Gammarini del golfo di Napoli. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte, 20, 1 - 948.
  • Bate, C. S. (1857) A synopsis of the British edriophthalmous Crustacea. Part I. Amphipoda. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 2, 19, 135 - 152. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935708697715
  • Bate, C. S. (1862) Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum Natural History, London, 56 pp.
  • Barnard, K. H. (1955) Addition to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum, 43 (1), 1 - 107.
  • Ayari, R. (2004) Les peuplements macro-zoobenthiques du petit golfe de Tunis: Structure, Organisation et Etat sanitaire. MSc Thesis, Faculte des Sciences de Bizerte, University of Carthage, Tunis. [unknown pagination]
  • Felder, D. L. & Camp, D. K. (Eds.) (2009) Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity. Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Texas, 1393 pp.
  • Koukouras, A. (2010) Check-list of marine species from Greece. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, database. [assembled in the framework of the EU FP 7 PESI project]
  • Miloslavich, P., Diaz, J. M., Klein, E., Alvarado, J. J., Diaz, C., Gobin, J., Escobar-Briones, E., Cruz-Motta, J. J., Weil, E., Cortes, J., Bastidas, A. C., Robertson, R., Zapata, F., Martin, A., Castillo, J., Kazandjian, A. & Ortiz, M. (2010) Marine biodiversity in the Caribbean: regional estimates and distribution patterns. PLoS ONE, 5 (8), 1 - 25. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0011916
  • 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.
  • Sivaprakasam, T. E. (1968 a) Amphipods of the genera Maera Leach and Elasmopus Costa from the east coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 10 (1), 34 - 51.
  • Surya Rao, K. V. (1972) Intertidal amphipods from the Indian coast. In Proceding of Indian National Science Academy, 38, 190 - 205.