WoRMS taxon details
original description
Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. <em>In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640 page(s): 403 [details]
original description
(of Leptothoe Stimpson, 1853) Stimpson, W. (1853). Synopsis of the marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan: or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.</em> 6: 1-66, pls. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32536624 page(s): 46 [details]
taxonomy source
Krapp-schickel, T.; Ruffo, S. (2000). The Maera quadrimana - complex (Crustacea Amphipoda, Melitidae) demands a new concept: Quadrimaera n. gen. (with description of three new species from Western Atlantic). <em>Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona.</em> 24: 193-214; 10 figs. [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source
Krapp-Schickel, T. 2008. What has happened with the Maera-clade (Crustacea, Amphipoda) during the last decades? Bolletino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona, 32, Botanica Zoologia: 3-32. [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (WoRCS)
Navarro-Barranco, C.; Martínez, A.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Chebaane, S.; Digenis, M.; Plaitis, W.; Voultsiadou, E.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2023). Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge. <em>Diversity.</em> 15(12): 1180., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/12/1180 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Leach's original spelling is 'MAERA', which in the original capitalisation is clear. However, where it appears in lower case it appears to be spelled 'Moera'
Care must be taken with ae and oe ligatures æ and œ. These are often misinterpreted characters, both ligatures may look extremely similar in Times italics. This has led to many misinterpretations and misspellings of Maera and Moera in older literature. All original names are added to WoRMS as Maera.
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Type species Cancer grossimanus Montagu, 1808, monotypy [details]Unverified
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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