Quasimelita formosa ( Murdoch, 1885 )

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, Zootaxa 3869 (3), pp. 237-280 : 241

Quasimelita formosa ( Murdoch, 1885)

Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885: 520 .— Stebbing, 1906: 427.— Gurjanova, 1951: 748.— Shoemaker, 1955: 50.— Karaman, 1981: 40.— Barnard and Barnard, 1983: 665.

Quasimelita formosa ( Murdoch, 1885) — Jarret & Bousfield, 1996: 38.

Distributed throughout the shelf of Sakhalin Island ( Budnikova and Bezrukov, 2003; Dzhurinskyi, 2013; our data) ( Fig. 1 ). Also known from northern Japan and widely distributed across the Siberian and Canadian Arctic. Q. formosa was found between 70–300 m on the silty bottom with a constant low temperature (-1.2—+0.5°C). Specimens collected оutside the Sakhalin shelf occur in depths to 480 m (Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996).

Remarks. Jarrett and Bousfield (Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996: fig. 23) incorrectly described pereopods 1 and 2 in males of Q. quadrispinosa (Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996: p. 38, fig. 22), which is identical to the Q. formosa .

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FIGURE 1. Distribution of Quasimelita species on the shelf of Sakhalin Island and nearest area.