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 aeqvicornis G.O. Sars, 1879

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metopa*	Boeck, 1871	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Metopa aequicornis*	G.O. Sars, 1879	synonym

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1879). Crustacea et Pycnogonida nova in itinere 2do et 3tio expeditionis Norvegicae anno 1877 & 78 collecta (prodromus descriptionis). [New Crustacea and Pycnogonida collected during the 2nd and 3rd voyages of the Norwegian expedition in 1877 & 78 (prologue to the description). Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab. 4: 427-476.
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 aeqvicornis G.O. Sars, 1879. 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:1596972