Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Amphilochida > Parvorder Amphilochidira > Superfamily Amphilochoidea > Family Stenothoidae > Subfamily Stenothoinae > Genus Metopa

Metopa propinqva G.O. Sars, 1892

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metopa*	Boeck, 1871	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Metopa propinqua*	G.O. Sars, 1892	synonym

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1892). Amphipoda. Part XII. Stenothoidae (continued). An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. I: 253-272, pls 89-96. Cammermeyer, Christiana (Oslo).
additional source	d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (2010). Contribution to the knowledge of European Liljeborgiidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with considerations on the family and its affinities. Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Biologie. 80: 127-259; Plates: Fig. 1-32.

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. Metopa propinqva G.O. Sars, 1892. 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:1596971