Africorchestia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Talitroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Peracarida Ordo: Amphipoda Subordo: Senticaudata Infraordo: Talitrida Superfamilia: Talitroidea

Familia: Talitridae
Genus: Africorchestia
Species (5): A. fischeri – A. meridionalis – A. quadrispinosa – A. skoogi – A. spinifera – A. tricornuta

Name

• Africorchestia Lowry & Coleman, 2011
  • Gender: feminine
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Type species: Orchestia spinifera Mateus, 1962
    • Fixation: original designation [p. 57]

References

• Lowry, J.K. & Baldzani, S. 2016. New talitrids from South Africa (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitroidea, Talitridae) with notes on their ecology. Zootaxa 4144(2): 151–174. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.1. Reference page. 
• Lowry, J.K.; Coleman, C.O. 2011: Africorchestia a new genus of sand-hoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from western Africa and south-western Europe. Zootaxa, 2825: 55–68. Preview PDF