Cocorchestia margaritae ( Stephensen, 1948 ) Lowry & Myers, 2022

Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A., 2022, Platorchestiinae subfam. nov. (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitridae) with the description of three new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 5100 (1), pp. 1-53 : 9-11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F42DAC62-0E30-442E-A375-87FC02B2CC99

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6312306

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487D2-955B-084C-E0F1-F959EC82FF75

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scientific name

Cocorchestia margaritae ( Stephensen, 1948 )
status

comb. nov.

Cocorchestia margaritae ( Stephensen, 1948) View in CoL comb. nov.

( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 )

Talorchestia margaritae Stephensen, 1948: 7 View in CoL , figs 1, 2, Table 2.— Ruffo, 1950: 50.— Galan, 1984: 137 (PhD thesis).— Könemann, 1997:10.— Barrios & Lemus, 2000: 139.— Martin & Diaz, 2003: 339.— Ruffo & Krapp-Schickel, 2005: 37.— Martin et al., 2013: 1716.

Non-Taxonomic Citations

Talorchestia margaritae View in CoL .— Blanco, 1980: 44 pp. (biology, thesis).— Venables, 1981a: 89 (physiology).— Venables, 1981b: 182 (growth).— Venables, 1981c: 271 (population dynamics).— Correa, 1985: 11 (caloric content).— Sánchez, 1985: 51 pp (biology, thesis).— Dias & Sprung, 2003: 1137 (population dynamics).— Huck, Martin & Miloslavich, 2007: 3, 4, fig. 1, 5, table 1, figs 2, 3 (protein content).— López et al., 2010: 841, 844, table 1, 846, table 2, (ecology).— Wildish et al., 2011: 1249, table 3.

Types. Holotype, male, 12 mm. Paratypes, 2 males, 1 female, ZMUC .

Type locality. Patio of Hotel Central , Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela, under stones in the patio about 60 m from the sandy sea shore .

Ecological type. Beach-hoppers.

Habitat. Living at the back of sandy beaches.

Diagnosis (male). Based on Stephensen (1948).

Gnathopod 2 propodus palm without proximal sinus, with large distal sinus; with proximal spine defining palm. Pereopod 7 not incrassate. Telson with 7–8 robust setae per lobe.

Remarks. Platorchestia margaritae differs from the other species in the genus in having a large spine defining the proximal margin of the palm of male gnathopod 2.

Venables (1981 a –c) describes aspects of the physiology and ecology of the species. Martin & Diaz (2003) reported it as common on sandy beaches in Anzoátegui, Nueva Esparta and Sucre, Venezuela.

Distribution. Venezuela. Margarita Island ( Stephensen 1948): Cumaná ( Venables 1981 a –c).

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Talitridae

Genus

Cocorchestia

Loc

Cocorchestia margaritae ( Stephensen, 1948 )

Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A. 2022
2022
Loc

Talorchestia margaritae

Huck, E. & Martin, A. & Miloslavich, P. 2007: 3
Dias, N. & Sprung, M. 2003: 1137
Correa, M. 1985: 11
Sanchez, L. 1985: 51
Venables, B. J. 1981: 89
Venables, B. J. 1981: 182
Venables, B. J. 1981: 271
Blanco, J. P. 1980: 44
1980
Loc

Talorchestia margaritae

Martin, A. & Diaz, Y. J. & Miloslavich & Escobar-Briones, P. E. & Guerra-Garcia, J. M. & Ortiz, M. & Valencia, B. & Giraldo, A. & Klein, E. 2013: 1716
Ruffo, S. & Krapp-Schickel, T. 2005: 37
Martin, A. & Diaz, Y. J. 2003: 339
Barrios, J. & Lemus, A. 2000: 139
Konemann, S. 1997: 10
Galan, A. 1984: 137
Ruffo, S. 1950: 50
Stephensen, K. 1948: 7
1948
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