WoRMS taxon details
original description
Gurjanova, E.F. (1977). Novoe v sistematike semejstva Phoxocephalidae sensu lato (Amphipoda, Gammaridea). Soobshchenie I. [Some new data in taxonomy of family Phoxocephalidae sensu lato (Amphipoda, Gammaridea). Report 1.]. <em>Issledovanija Fauny Morej.</em> 21(29): 67-87. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Jarrett N.E. & Bousfield E.L. (1994). The Amphipod Superfamily Phoxocephaloidea on the Pacific Coast of North America. Family Phoxocephalidae. Part 1. Metharpiniinae, New Subfamily. Amphipacifica, 1, 1, 58-140. note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type designation The type of Gurjanova's genus Parametaphoxus was based on Metaphoxus fultoni (Scott, 1890). The latter is an eastern Atlantic species having the same form of male peraeopod. copulatory apparatus as in M. frequens and other members of the genus Metaphoxus (e.g. M. pectinatus, Walker). However, the species from the N. American Pacific region, formerly identified as M. fultoni, has a different type of copulatory apparatus than that of the eastern Atlantic TYPE of M. fultoni. Thus, the eastern Pacific form is a distinctly different species (newly named P. quaylei below). Since Gurjanova (1977) was referring to the eastern Pacific form of "M. fultoni", that form becomes the type of her valid new genus,Parametaphoxus. [details]
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