Niphargus tonywhitteni

Niphargus tonywhitteni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Crangonyctoidea

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: Gammaridea Superfamilia: Crangonyctoidea

Familia: Niphargidae
Genus: Niphargus
Species: Niphargus tonywhitteni

Taxonavigation

Niphargus tonywhitteni Fišer et al., 2018

ZooBank: E5CE0D3A-2BE9-4794-851F-D1D537EEE767

Holotype: Male, 9.1 mm. The specimen is mounted on two slides and deposited in the collection of the Musée de Zoologie, Lausanne, Switzerland under voucher number GBIFCH00585714 and GBIFCH00585715. Sampled on 17 October 2014 by Tom Gonser.

Type locality: Gravel bed of Töss River near Winterthur, Switzerland (CH1903: 697,715/257,410).

Paratype: one male of length 7.5 mm with voucher numbers GBIFCH00587517.

Etymology: named after Tony Whitten.

References

• Fišer, C., Alther, R., Zakšek, V., Borko, S., Fuchs, A. & Altermatt, F. 2018. Translating Niphargus barcodes from Switzerland into taxonomy with a description of two new species (Amphipoda, Niphargidae). ZooKeys 760: 113–141. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.760.24978. Reference page. 

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Links

• Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Coleman, C.O.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Sket, B.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2020). World Amphipoda Database. Niphargus tonywhitteni Fišer, Alther, Zakšek, Borko, Fuchs & Altermatt, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1258311 on 2020-06-18

• BHL bibliography
• Niphargus tonywhitteni – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Niphargus tonywhitteni.
• ION

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