Mauritiorchestia fayetta Green, Appadoo, Lowry & Myers, 2021

Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A., 2022, Platorchestiinae subfam. nov. (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitridae) with the description of three new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 5100 (1), pp. 1-53 : 25-27

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F42DAC62-0E30-442E-A375-87FC02B2CC99

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6312339

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487D2-954B-085C-E0F1-F8DBECD6FF11

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Plazi

scientific name

Mauritiorchestia fayetta Green, Appadoo, Lowry & Myers, 2021
status

 

Mauritiorchestia fayetta Green, Appadoo, Lowry & Myers, 2021 View in CoL

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Platorchestia fayetta Beeltah & Appadoo, 2017: 44 (nomen nudum).

Type material. Holotype, male, 9.9 mm, MNHN / 2021/01/01 . Paratype, female, 8.6 mm, MNHN / 2021/02/01, 3 males MNHN / 2021/03/01, 5 females MNHN / 2021/04/01.

Type locality. Post la Fayette (20°8.2’S 57°44.5’E) GoogleMaps .

Ecological type. Sand-hoppers.

Habitat. On coastal sandy substrate with huge amount of beach wrack algae.

Size. 9.8 mm. Sexual dimorphism present.

Diagnosis (male).

With the characters of the genus.

Distribution. Mauritius, western Indian Ocean. Poste la Fayette (Green, et al. 2021).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

SubOrder

Senticaudata

ParvOrder

Talitridira

SuperFamily

Talitroidea

Family

Talitridae

SubFamily

Platorchestiinae

Genus

Mauritiorchestia

Loc

Mauritiorchestia fayetta Green, Appadoo, Lowry & Myers, 2021

Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A. 2022
2022
Loc

Platorchestia fayetta

Beeltah, S. & Appadoo, C. 2017: 44
2017
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