Name - Melita Leach 1814

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:113026 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Melita

• Paraniphargus Tattersall 1925

• Melita Leach

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Recent Publications

• Two new species of eyeless amphipods from a coastal area in Japan (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hadziidae, Melitidae), with reinstatement of the genus Paraniphargus Tattersall, 1925.
• A new species of Melita from Japan (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Melitidae).
• Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the West Pacific Islands, with descriptions of four new species.
• Illustrated keys for the classification of Cuban amphipods (Crustacea, Peracarida): morphology and taxonomy.
• Melita lowryi, a New Species of Melitidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from New Zealand, and the Redescription of Melita festiva (Chilton, 1885) from Australia.

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Brewster's Edin. Ency., VII(2) 1814: 403. [Index Animalium Entry]

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