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Melita nitida S. I. Smith in Verrill 1873
Authors/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
240. Melita nitida S.I. Smith in Verrill, 1873
Type locality: New Jersey, USA.
Distribution. World: United States (Smith in Verrill 1873; Wasson et al. 2001), Caribbean Sea, Colombia, Cuba (Miloslavich et al. 2010), Bay of Biscay (Gouillieux et al. 2016), India (Surya Rao 1972).
India: Western India Ecoregion: Arabian Sea (Surya Rao 1972) [INTRODUCED].
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 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8324090
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- S. I. Smith in Verrill
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Family
- Melitidae
- Genus
- Melita
- Species
- nitida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melita nitida in, 1873 sec. Thacker, Patel, Myers, Guerra-García, Zeidler & Trivedi, 2023
References
- Wasson, K., Zabin, C. J., Bedinger, L., Diaz, M. C. & Pearse, J. S. (2001) Biological invasions of estuaries without international shipping: the importance of intraregional transport. Biological Conservation, 102 (2), 143 - 153. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0006 - 3207 (01) 00098 - 2
- 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
- Gouillieux, B., Lavesque, N., Blanchet, H. & Bachelet, G. (2016) First record of the non-indigenous Melita nitida Smith, 1873 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) in the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic). BioInvasions Records, 5 (2), 85 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / bir. 2016.5.2.05
- Surya Rao, K. V. (1972) Intertidal amphipods from the Indian coast. In Proceding of Indian National Science Academy, 38, 190 - 205.