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Megaluropus agilis Hoek 1889

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

201. Megaluropus agilis Hoek, 1889

Type locality: Kattegat.

Synonyms: Cheirocratus drechselii Meinert, 1890

Distribution. World: Kattegat (Hoek 1889), North Atlantic Ocean (Bellan-Santini & Costello 2001), Belgium (Cattrijsse & Vincx 2001), Grevelingen (Faasse & Stikvoort 2002), Bay of Biscay (Bachelet et al. 2003), Ireland (Guiry & Guiry 2011), India (Pillai 1957).

India: Western India Ecoregion: Gujarat (Srinivas et al. 2020); South India Ecoregion: Kerala (Pillai 1957); Tamil Nadu (Nayar 1966); Eastern India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Nayar 1959; Venkataraman 2007).

Infraorder: Hadziida S. Karaman, 1943

Parvorder: Hadziidira S. Karaman, 1932

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 65, 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
Megaluropidae
Genus
Megaluropus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hoek
Species
agilis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Megaluropus agilis Hoek, 1889 sec. Thacker, Patel, Myers, Guerra-García, Zeidler & Trivedi, 2023

References

  • Bellan-Santini, D. & Costello, M. J. (2001) Amphipoda. In: Costello, M. J., Emblow, C. S. & White, R. J. (Ed.), (2001) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50, pp. 295 - 308.
  • Cattrijsse, A. & Vincx, M. (2001) Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Brussel, 48 pp.
  • Faasse, M. & Stikvoort, E. (2002) Mariene en estuariene vlokreeftjes van zachte bodems in het Deltagebied (Crustacea: Gammaridea) [Marine and estuarine amphipods of soft substrates in the Delta area of the Netherlands (Crustacea: Gammaridea)]. Nederlandse Faunistische Mededelingen, 17, 57 - 86.
  • 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.
  • Pillai, N. K. (1957) Pelagic Crustacea of Travancore. III. Amphipoda. Bulletin of the Central Research Institute, University of Travancore, Series C, Natural Sciences, 5 (1), 29 - 68.
  • Srinivas, T., Sukumaran, S., Neetu, S. & Ramesh Babu, K. (2020) Diversity and Functional Patterns of Benthic Amphipods in the Coralline Intertidal Zones of a Marine National Park, India. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7 (589195), 1 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.3389 / fmars. 2020.589195
  • Nayar, K. N. (1966) s. n. In: On the gammaridean Amphipoda of the Gulf of Mannar, with special reference to those of the pearl and chank beds. Central Marine Fisheries Research University, Mandapam Campus, Mandapam, pp. 133 - 168.
  • 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.