Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Hyperiidea > Infraorder Physocephalata > Superfamily Phronimoidea > Family Hyperiidae > Genus Hyperia

Hyperia galba (Montagu, 1815)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hyperia*	Latreille, 1823	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Hyperia latreille*	Milne-Edwards	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kwalgarnaal; kwalvlo sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;Asselberghs, M. (1989). Report on the beach excursion at Oostduinkerke on 4 November 1989 [Verslag van de strandwandeling te Oostduinkerke op 4 november 1989]. De Strandvlo 9(4): 121-123

English: big-eye amphipod sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: quallenflohkrebs

Literature

original description	Montagu G. (1815). Descriptions of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the South coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11: 1-26
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
additional source	Bachelet, G.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Sorbe, J.C. (2003). An updated checklist of marine and brackish water Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the southern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic). Cah. Biol. Mar. 44(2): 121-151
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
additional source	Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (136 publications)
Barcode of Life (25 barcodes)
GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

WoRMS (2014). Hyperia galba (Montagu, 1815). 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:103251