Canadian Register of Marine Species - Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945

CaRMS name details

Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945

AphiaID

158132 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158132)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Photis pollex Walker, 1895

Rank

Species

Parent

Photis Krøyer, 1842

Original name

Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Shoemaker, C. R. (1945). The amphipod genus Photis on the east coast of North America. Charleston Museum Leaflet. 22: 1-17. [details] Available for editors

Descriptive notes

Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Virginia

Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Virginia [details]

Taxonomic 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. Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158132 on 2026-07-15

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Photis macrocoxa Shoemaker, 1945. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158132 on 2026-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-25 08:24:16Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-11-26 08:12:34Z

changed

Lowry, Jim

2023-11-18 11:17:55Z

changed

Horton, Tammy

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original description Shoemaker, C. R. (1945). The amphipod genus Photis on the east coast of North America. Charleston Museum Leaflet. 22: 1-17. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Bousfield, E. L. (1973). Shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 312 pp. [details] Available for editors

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Virginia [details]

Habitat Found from the intertidal zone to 106 m depth over muddy and sandy bottoms. [details]

Reproduction ovigerous females from April to July [details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (61 records)
To ITIS