Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Hadziida > Parvorder Hadziidira > Superfamily Hadzioidea > Family Melitidae

Megamoera Spence Bate, 1863

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Megamoera dentata (Krøyer, 1842)
Megamoera pallida (G.O. Sars, 1879)

Literature

original description	Bate, C. S. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum Natural History: London. i-iv + 1-399, pls. 1-58.
additional source	Jarrett N.E. & Bousfield E.L. (1996). The Amphipod Superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific Coast of North America: Family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita Group: Systematics and Distributional Ecology. Amphipacifica, 2, 2, 3-74.
additional source	Labay, V. S. (2013). Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the costal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Genera Megamoera Bate, 1862 and Armatomelita gen. nov. Zootaxa. 3700(1): 65.

Genbank

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. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Megamoera Spence Bate, 1863. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101678