Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 (Jarret & Bousfield 1996 ...

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Quasimelita; Arctic; North Atlantic; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5677640; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5677640

Genus Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 (Jarret & Bousfield, 1996: 36) Melita Stebbing, 1906: 421 (part).— Gurjanova, 1951: 748, 751 (part).— Karaman, 1981: 41 (part).— Barnard & Barnard, 1983: 664 (part). Abludomelita Karaman, 1981: 40 (part). Type species. Melita quadrispinosa Vosseler, 1889: 157. Species. Including the new species described here, Quasimelita contains five species in the North Pacific (Jarret & Bousfield 1996, new data): Q. formosa (Murdoch, 1885), Q. quadrispinosa (Vosseler, 1889), Q. jarettii sp. nov., Q. serraticoxae sp. nov. and Q. tolyza sp. nov. Q. formosa and Q. quadrispinosa are widely distributed across the Siberian and Canadian Arctic region and in the North Pacific region to Japan. Q. abyssorum (Stephensen, 1944) was described only from North Atlantic and near Arctic (Palerud, Gulliksen, Brattegard, Sneli, J.-A. & Wim Vader, 2004; Stephensen, 1944; Vosseler, 1889). Diagnosis (from Jarret & Bousfield 1996, with additions). Pereon segments without ... : Published as part of 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, pp. 237-280 in Zootaxa 3869 (3) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/251715 ...