Marinogammarus, SCHELLENBERG, 1937

Hou, Zhonge & Sket, Boris, 2016, A review of Gammaridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda): the family extent, its evolutionary history, and taxonomic redefinition of genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (2), pp. 323-348 : 335

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12318

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5454736

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scientific name

Marinogammarus
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GENUS MARINOGAMMARUS SCHELLENBERG, 1937 View in CoL B

Type species

Gammarus marinus Leach, 1815 .

Aditional species

Molecularly (conditionally) proven ( Hou et al., 2014) taxa are: Gammarus obtusatus Dahl, 1938 , Marinogammarus pirloti Sexton and Spooner, 1940 ; probably also Gammarus finmarchicus Dahl, 1938 , and Marinogammarus atlanticus Dahl, 1958 .

Distribution

Marinogammarus spp. inhabit shallow eastern and north-western North Atlantic waters, particularly where influenced by freshwater inflow. If G. olivii belongs here, as supposed by Sexton & Spooner (1940), the genus is also present in the Mediterranean.

Remarks

Marinogammarus is a sister clade to Homoeogammarus + Ponto-Caspian group of genera, and molecularly very distant from that sister group. It also differs in biogeography.

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