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WoRMS taxon details

Photis pollex Walker, 1895

102385  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102385)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Amphipoda (Order)
  10. Senticaudata (Suborder)
  11. Corophiida (Infraorder)
  12. Caprellidira (Parvorder)
  13. Photoidea (Superfamily)
  14. Photidae (Family)
  15. Photis (Genus)
  16. Photis pollex (Species)
accepted
Species
Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Walker A.O. (1895b). Revision of the Amphipoda of the L.M.B.C. District. Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society, 9, pp. 287-320;pls. 18-19. [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and...  
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel) [details]

Distribution recorded in Dublin Bay, Liverpool Bay and Mull of Kintyre, but probably quite widely distributed.  
Distribution recorded in Dublin Bay, Liverpool Bay and Mull of Kintyre, but probably quite widely distributed. [details]
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. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Photis pollex Walker, 1895. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102385 on 2025-05-13
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan-Santini, Denise
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
checked
Costello, Mark J.
2023-11-18 16:57:14Z
changed
Horton, Tammy

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Nomenclature

original description Walker A.O. (1895b). Revision of the Amphipoda of the L.M.B.C. District. Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society, 9, pp. 287-320;pls. 18-19. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945) Shoemaker, C. R. (1945). The amphipod genus Photis on the east coast of North America. Charleston Museum Leaflet. 22: 1-17. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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] 

Other

context source (Deepsea) Census of Marine Life (2012). SYNDEEP: Towards a first global synthesis of biodiversity, biogeography and ecosystem function in the deep sea. Unpublished data (datasetID: 38), available online at http://www.comlsecretariat.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SYNDEEP-Towards-a-first-global-synthesis-of-biodiversity-biogeography-and-ecosystem-function-in-the-deep-sea-Eva-Ramirez-Llodra-et-al..pdf [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  PDF available [request]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
Polygons
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel) [details]

Distribution recorded in Dublin Bay, Liverpool Bay and Mull of Kintyre, but probably quite widely distributed. [details]

Habitat infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Synonymy Also listed as synonym of Photis reinhardi - needs checking [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
Japanese キタクダオソコエビ [from synonym]  [details]
To Barcode of Life 
To Barcode of Life (from synonym Photis reinhardi Krøyer, 1842 sensu Lincoln, 1979)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Photis reinhardi Krøyer, 1842 sensu Lincoln, 1979)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Photis reinhardi Krøyer, 1842 sensu Lincoln, 1979)
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (58 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (61 records) (from synonym Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945)
To ITIS
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