Quasimelita quadrispinosa ( Vosseler, 1889 )

Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2014, Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934, Zootaxa 3869 (3), pp. 237-280 : 241

Quasimelita quadrispinosa ( Vosseler, 1889)

Melita quadrispinosa Vosseler, 1889: 157 .— Stebbing, 1906: 422.— Gurjanova, 1951: 751.— Karaman, 1981: 41.— Barnard and Barnard, 1983: 666.

Quasimelita quadrispinosa ( Vosseler, 1889) — Jarret & Bousfield, 1996: 36.

Distributed throughout the northern shelf of Sakhalin Island (our data) ( Fig. 1 ). Outside the Sakhalin shelf recorded from the Barents, Chukchi and Bering Seas. Q. quadrispinosa was found between 70–300 m on the silty and sandsilty bottom with a constant low temperature (-1.2 – +0.5°C).

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FIGURE 1. Distribution of Quasimelita species on the shelf of Sakhalin Island and nearest area.