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Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart 2010

Authors/Creators

  • 1. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland
  • 2. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • 3. Wildland Consultants Ltd., Rotorua P. O. Box 7137, New Zealand & Department of Applied and Environmental Sciences, NorthTec, Private Bag 9019, Whangārei, New Zealand

Description

Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart, 2010

(Figs 2–3)

Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart, 2010: 21.

Type species. Parorchestia notabilis Barnard, 1935.

Included species. C. lindsayae Lowry & Springthorpe, 2015; C. metcalfeae Lowry & Springthorpe, 2015; C. morini (Asari, 1998); C. morrumbene Lowry & Springthorpe, 2015; C. notabilis (Barnard, 1935); C. poka Lowry & Springthorpe, 2015; C. tulear Lowry & Springthorpe, 2015.

Remarks. Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart differs from Microrchestia Bousfield in having oostegite setae with simple tips (Fig. 3), uropod 1 exopodite with marginal robust setae and a maxilliped palp article 2 with a medial lobe.

Notes

Published as part of Myers, Alan A., Park, Eunji & Ball, Olivier J. - P., 2025, A revision of the family Protorchestiidae (Amphipoda: Talitroidea) with the description of two new subfamilies, three new genera and one new species, pp. 371-390 in Zootaxa 5725 (3) on page 373, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5725.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/17869359

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/8B5D87DC9277FF90FF59FA9F9DADF8AE

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.17869365 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.17869369 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.5316578 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C9D91AFFC2FFAEFF681ED0FE12FB1F (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5725.3.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17869359 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7764FFA49275FF92FFCEFFE29D62FFB0 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/BE16AC59-5F99-4D28-AC42-90002BA7B9B7 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/8B5D87DC9277FF90FF59FA9F9DADF8AE (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/309044208 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313559/taxon/8B5D87DC9277FF90FF59FA9F9DADF8AE.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lowry & Peart
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Amphipoda
Family
Protorchestiidae
Genus
Cochinorchestia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cochinorchestia Lowry, 2010 sec. Myers, Park & Ball, 2025

References

  • Lowry, J. K. & Peart, R. (2010) The genus Microrchestia (Amphipoda: Talitridae) in eastern Australia. Zootaxa, 2349 (1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2349.1.2
  • Barnard, K. H. (1935) Report on some Amphipoda, Isopoda, and Tanaidacea in the collections of the Indian Museum. Records of the Indian Museum, 37, 279-319. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v37/i3/1935/162970
  • Lowry, J. K. & Springthorpe, R. T. (2015) Coastal Talitridae (Amphipoda: Talitroidea) from north-western Australia to Darwin with a revision of the genus Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart, 2010. Zootaxa, 3985 (2), 151-202. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.1
  • Asari, P. K. (1998) (1998) Brackish water amphipods of the Parangipettai coast. In: Lyla, P. S., Velvizhi, S. & Ajmal Khan, S. (Eds.), Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology. Annamalai University, Parangipettai, pp. 1-80.