WoRMS taxon details
Protorchestia Bousfield, 1982
236829 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236829)
accepted
Genus
Orchestia nitida Dana, 1852 accepted as Protorchestia nitida (Dana, 1852) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bousfield, E. L. (1982). The Amphipod superfamily Talitroidea in the North-eastern Pacific region.I. Family Talitridae: Systematics and distributional ecology. <em>National Museums of Canada, Publications in Biological Oceanography.</em> 11: 1-77. [details] Available for editors [request]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copila?-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. (2024). World Amphipoda Database. Protorchestia Bousfield, 1982. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236829 on 2024-04-19
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original description
Bousfield, E. L. (1982). The Amphipod superfamily Talitroidea in the North-eastern Pacific region.I. Family Talitridae: Systematics and distributional ecology. <em>National Museums of Canada, Publications in Biological Oceanography.</em> 11: 1-77. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
basis of record De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
From editor or global species database
Remark There appears to be little difference between Protorchestia Bousfield, 1982 and Microchestia Bousfield, 1984. The only significant difference I (JKL) can find between Microrchestia and Protorchestia is slightly sexually dimorphic pereopods 6 and 7 in Microrchestia. Richardson (1996) comments on the slight differences between the Tasmanian species of Eorchestia and Protorchestia. For him the main difference was the 5-dentate left lacinia mobilis of Protorchestia. In the P. nitida of Bousfield (1982) there is at least one robust seta on the margin of the uropod 3 ramus. These are all very small differences which make it difficult at times to separate the Microrchestia and Protorchestia. [details]