WoRMS taxon details
Epimeria (Epimeria) cornigera (Fabricius, 1779)
1053398 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1053398)
accepted
Species
Acanthonotus cranchii White, 1847 · unaccepted > nomen nudum
Acanthonotus owenii Spence Bate, 1857 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Acanthonotus owenii Spence Bate, 1856 · unaccepted > nomen nudum
Acanthonotus testudo White, 1850 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779) · unaccepted (superseded recombination)
Epimeria tricristata A. Costa in Hope, 1851 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Gammarus corniger Fabricius, 1779 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Gammarus corniger Fabricius, 1779) Fabricius, J. C. (1779). Reise nach Norwegen mit Bemerkungen aus der Naturhistorie und Oekonomie. [Journey to Norway with Remarks on Natural History and Economics.]. <em>Hamburg. Carl Ernst Bohn.</em> 388 pp., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=QY8BAAAAYAAJ [details]
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. Epimeria (Epimeria) cornigera (Fabricius, 1779). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1053398 on 2025-07-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Acanthonotus testudo White, 1850) White A. (1850). Descriptions of two species of Crustacea in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 18, pp. 95-97;pl. 16. [details]
original description (of Acanthonotus owenii Spence Bate, 1857) Bate, C. S. (1857). A synopsis of the British edriophthalmous Crustacea. Part I. Amphipoda. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 2.</em> 19: 135-152.
page(s): 141 [details]
original description (of Epimeria tricristata A. Costa in Hope, 1851) Hope, F.G. (1851). Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di moltri altri del Mediterraneo. [Catalogue of Italian crustaceans and many others from the Mediterranean.]. <em>Napoli Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini, Naples.</em> 48 pp., 2 figs., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.3924 [details]
original description (of Gammarus corniger Fabricius, 1779) Fabricius, J. C. (1779). Reise nach Norwegen mit Bemerkungen aus der Naturhistorie und Oekonomie. [Journey to Norway with Remarks on Natural History and Economics.]. <em>Hamburg. Carl Ernst Bohn.</em> 388 pp., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=QY8BAAAAYAAJ [details]
original description (of Acanthonotus owenii Spence Bate, 1857) Bate, C. S. (1857). A synopsis of the British edriophthalmous Crustacea. Part I. Amphipoda. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 2.</em> 19: 135-152.
page(s): 141 [details]
original description (of Epimeria tricristata A. Costa in Hope, 1851) Hope, F.G. (1851). Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di moltri altri del Mediterraneo. [Catalogue of Italian crustaceans and many others from the Mediterranean.]. <em>Napoli Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini, Naples.</em> 48 pp., 2 figs., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.3924 [details]
original description (of Gammarus corniger Fabricius, 1779) Fabricius, J. C. (1779). Reise nach Norwegen mit Bemerkungen aus der Naturhistorie und Oekonomie. [Journey to Norway with Remarks on Natural History and Economics.]. <em>Hamburg. Carl Ernst Bohn.</em> 388 pp., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=QY8BAAAAYAAJ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (33 barcodes) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Acanthonotus owenii Spence Bate, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Acanthonotus testudo White, 1850)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Epimeria cornigera) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To GenBank (36 nucleotides; 42 proteins) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To PESI (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To PESI (from synonym Acanthonotus testudo White, 1850)
To PESI (from synonym Acanthonotus owenii Spence Bate, 1857)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Acanthonotus owenii Spence Bate, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Acanthonotus testudo White, 1850)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Epimeria cornigera) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To GenBank (36 nucleotides; 42 proteins) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To PESI (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))
To PESI (from synonym Acanthonotus testudo White, 1850)
To PESI (from synonym Acanthonotus owenii Spence Bate, 1857)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius, 1779))