MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Melita Leach, 1814

MSBIAS taxon details

Melita Leach, 1814

Melita palmata (male)

AphiaID

101679 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101679)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon of

Melitidae Bousfield, 1973

Parent

Melitidae Bousfield, 1973

Original name

Melita Leach, 1814

Direct children (5)

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Species Melita hergensis Reid, 1939
Species Melita nitida S.I. Smith in Verrill & Smith, 1874
Species Melita palmata (Montagu, 1804)
Species Melita dentata (Krøyer, 1842) accepted as Megamoera dentata (Krøyer, 1842) (superseded combination)
Species Melita obtusata (Montagu, 1813) accepted as Abludomelita obtusata (Montagu, 1813) (Synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640
page(s): 403; note: (Bottom-Left corner) [details]

Taxonomic citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2024). World Amphipoda Database. Melita Leach, 1814. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2024) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101679 on 2024-11-26

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2024). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Melita Leach, 1814. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101679 on 2024-11-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-01-13 20:52:06Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

checked

Costello, Mark J.

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-10-26 10:14:21Z

checked

Lowry, Jim

2010-11-09 10:34:31Z

changed

Lowry, Jim

2020-07-10 13:15:08Z

changed

Horton, Tammy

2022-09-03 12:34:33Z

changed

Horton, Tammy

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original description Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640
page(s): 403; note: (Bottom-Left corner) [details]

basis of record Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors

additional source Lincoln, R. J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History). 658 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Melita)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (6 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 054038)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Melita palmata (male)

Image from typetaxon

Unreviewed

To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 054038)

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