Urothoe elegans

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Urothoe elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Amphipoda
Family: Urothoidae
Genus: Urothoe
Species:
U. elegans
Binomial name
Urothoe elegans
(Bate, 1857)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gammarus elegans (Mihi)[2]
  • Urothoe abbreviata G. O. Sars, 1879
  • Urothoe norvegica Boeck, 1861

Urothoe elegans is a species of very small marine amphipod crustaceans in the family Urothoidae. It was first described from Plymouth.

References[edit]

  1. ^ A synopsis of the British Edriophthalmous Crustacea—Part. I. Amphipoda. CS Bate, Journal of Natural History, 1857? doi:10.1080/00222935708697715 (description p. 145)
  2. ^ Brit Assoc Report
  • Effects de la temperature sur les rythmes d'emergence des peracarides fouisseurs, Urothoe elegans (amphipode) et Eurydice inermis (isopode). C Macquart‐Moulin - Marine & Freshwater Behaviour & Phy, 1980

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