Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Talitrida > Subsection Talitridira > Superfamily Talitroidea > Family Talitridae

Britorchestia Lowry & Bopiah, 2012

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Britorchestia brito (Stebbing, 1891)
Britorchestia ugolinii (Bellan-Santini & Ruffo, 1991)

Literature

original description

Lowry, J.K.; Bopiah, A. (2012). Britorchestia, a new talitrid genus from western Europe and the Mediterranean Sea and a revision of Pseudorchestoidea and Sardorchestia (Crustacea, Amphipoda,Talitridae). Zootaxa, 3451: 60–17.

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Citation

Horton, T. (2014). Britorchestia Lowry & Bopiah, 2012. In: Horton, T.; Lowry, J. & De Broyer, C. (2013 onwards) World Amphipoda Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:744565

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2013-11-22 by Tammy Horton

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