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Melphidippa goesi Stebbing, 1899 
AphiaID: 102857

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Melphidippidae (Family) > Melphidippa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Melphidippa Boeck, 1871
Synonymised
taxa
  Gammarus spinosa Goës, 1866 (Homonym)
Melphidippa spinosa (Goës, 1866) (Synonym)
Sources  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 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

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. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Lincoln, R.J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History): London, UK. ISBN 0-565-00818-8. vi, 658 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); lower St. Lawrence estuary; Cobscook Bay [details]

Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102857
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan-Santini, Denise
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  checked  Costello, Mark
  
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  Citation: Costello, M.; Bellan-Santini, D. (2013). Melphidippa goesi. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102857 on 2013-05-25
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