Platorchestia platensis Griffiths et al. 2009

• Main Authors: Wildish, D. J., Smith, S. R., Loeza-Quintana, T., Radulovici, A. E., Adamowicz, S. J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Talitridae; Platorchestia; Platorchestia platensis; Gibbon; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4328627; https://zenodo.org/record/4328627

Platorchestia platensis (KrØyer, 1845) BOLD:AAA2949 As Orchestia platensis KrØyer 1845, p. 304, fig. 2; Platorchestia platensis (KrØyer 1845), Bousfield 1982, p. 26. Material examined From the following sampling locations: 8C, 14A, 14C, 16B (see Table 1 and Figure 2 for further details). Distribution Found on similar sand beaches and under similar wrack piles as P. monodi . Found in single species samples (that is all three individuals analysed = BOLD:AAA2949), all on the northwest coast of Bermuda at Bailey ’ s Bay (8C), Tynes Bay (14C) and Lagoon Park (16B). One other sample at Tobacco Bay Park (14A) was a mixed sample containing one P. platensis and two P. monodi . Other locations on the northwest coast consisted of single species P. monodi , e.g. Coot Pond (14B), Gibbon ’ s Bay (7A) and Stovell ’ s Bay (5B). Remarks During this study this species was first recognized by its distinct molecular signature, which matched specimens identified as P. platensis from BOLD and GenBank. The same species is common on the Atlantic coast of North America, north of Charleston, North Carolina to New Brunswick (Radulovici 2012). Formalin-preserved specimens have not been checked for the possible occurrence of the two species of Platorchestia by morphological criteria, with the exception of sample 8C. : Published as part of Wildish, D. J., Smith, S. R., Loeza-Quintana, T., Radulovici, A. E. & Adamowicz, S. J., 2016, Diversity and dispersal history of the talitrids (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) of Bermuda, pp. 1911-1933 in Journal of Natural History 50 on pages 1919-1920, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1180719, http://zenodo.org/record/3993348 : {"references": ["KrOyer H. 1845. Karcinologiske Bidrag. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 1: 304. Fig. 2.", "Bousfield EL. 1982. The amphipod superfamily Talitroidea in the northeastern Pacific region. 1. Family Talitridae: systematics and distributional ecology. Ottawa: Publications in Biological Oceanography, No. 11; p. 73.", "Radulovici AE. 2012. A tale of two biodiversity levels inferred from DNA barcoding of selected North Atlantic crustaceans. [Ph. D. thesis]. Rimouski (QC): University of Quebec at Rimouski; p. 245."]}