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Bellorchestia spadix

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Description

Bellorchestia spadix (Hurley, 1956)

Talorchestia telluris.— Chilton, 1917: 301–302 (in part).

Talorchestia spadix Hurley, 1956: 360 key, 383 figs. 132–148.

Bellorchestia spadix.— Serejo & Lowry, 2008: 169.— Lowry, 2012: 2.— Hughes & Lindsay, 2021: 86, 87.

Type material. Unverified, CMNZ, see methods section for comment.

Type locality. Ross Beach, Westland and Kaiapoi Beach, South Island, New Zealand.

Size. Male 12 mm, female 14 mm.

Remarks. The original description and illustration by Hurley adequately define and typify the taxon. No additional material of this species could be located in museum collections to establish a habitus illustration or better understand growth stage development of male sexually dimorphic characters. Despite the limited availability of material for study, Bellorchestia spadix is well diagnosed as a species and easily distinguished among New Zealand coastal talitroids based on the male dimorphic pereopods (Fig. 68).

Habitat. S upralittoral.

Distribution. New Zealand. South Island: Ross Beach, Westland and Kaiapoi Beach (Hurley 1956).

Notes

Published as part of Hughes, Lauren E. & Lowry, James K., 2023, Review of New Zealand Coastal Talitroids with description of three new genera (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata), pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 5268 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5268.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7840854

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C9062055575E7690EFFA823067F81B

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7843234 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5268.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7840854 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFF07E58554A5E6B9078FFED354EFF8A (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/114B5413-5162-40A7-AAAE-E2E6371C3B6C (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03C9062055575E7690EFFA823067F81B (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/209560630 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/250001/taxon/03C9062055575E7690EFFA823067F81B.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CMNZ
Family
Talitridae
Genus
Bellorchestia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hurley
Species
spadix
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Bellorchestia spadix (Hurley, 1956) sec. Hughes & Lowry, 2023

References

  • Hurley, D. E. (1956) Studies on the New Zealand amphipodan fauna. No. 13. Sandhoppers of the genus Talorchestia. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 84, 359 - 389.
  • Chilton, C. (1917) Some Amphipoda and Isopoda from Barrington Tops (4600 ft. alt.) N. S. W. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 50, 82 - 98.
  • Serejo, C. & Lowry, J. K. (2008) The coastal Talitridae (Amphipoda, Talitroidea) of Southern and Western Australia with Comments on Platorchestia platensis (Kroyer, 1845). Records of the Australian Museum, 60 (2 / 3), 161 - 206. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.60.2008.1491
  • Lowry, J. K. (2012) Talitrid amphipods of ocean beaches in New South Wales, Australia (Amphipoda, Talitridae). Zootaxa, 3575 (1), 1 - 26. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3575.1.1
  • Hughes, L. & Lindsay, S. (2021) New and Known species of Bellorchestia Serejo & Lowry, 2008 from Australia (Talitridae: Amphipoda: Crustacea). In: Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 85 - 138. https: // doi. org / 10.1201 / 9781003139560 - 5