Platorchestia Bousfield, 1982
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F42DAC62-0E30-442E-A375-87FC02B2CC99 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6312368 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487D2-9575-0860-E0F1-FC52EBF5F9DB |
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Plazi |
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Platorchestia Bousfield, 1982 |
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Platorchestia Bousfield, 1982 View in CoL
Platorchestia Bousfield, 1982: 26 View in CoL .— Jo, 1988: 160.— Richardson, 1991: 186.— Morino & Ortal, 1995: 825.— Miyamoto & Morino, 2004: 68.
Type species. Orchestia platensis Krøyer, 1845 View in CoL , original designation.
Currently* included species: P. ano Lowry & Bopiah, 2013 View in CoL ; P. crassicornis ( Costa, 1867) View in CoL , not P. crassicornis ( Derzhavin, 1937) View in CoL = Demaorchestia joi ( Stock & Biernbaum, 1994) View in CoL com. nov.; P. munmui Jo, 1988 View in CoL ; P. pachypus ( Derzhavin, 1937) View in CoL ; P. pacifica Miyamoto & Morino, 2004 View in CoL ; P. paraplatensis Serejo & Lowry, 2008 View in CoL ; P. platensis ( Krøyer, 1845) View in CoL ; P. smithi Lowry, 2012 View in CoL .
Ecological type. Beach-hopper.
Habitat. Among stranded algae and beach detritus on marine shores.
Size. 8–15 mm,
Remarks. Platorchestia is very similar to the north-western Pacific genus Sinorchestia . They differ mainly in the ventral plate on antenna 2 peduncular article 3 (absent in Platorchestia ); in the fourth article of the maxillipedal palp (reduced, button-shaped in Platorchestia , absent in Sinorchestia ); and in gnathopod 1 (subchelate in Platorchestia , parachelate in Sinorchestia ).
Species inquirenda. Platorchestia chathamensis Bousfield, 1982 (based on a female).
* A generic revision is currently in preparation by AAM and JKL
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Senticaudata |
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Talitridira |
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Talitroidea |
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Platorchestiinae |
Platorchestia Bousfield, 1982
| Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A. 2022 |
Platorchestia
| Miyamoto, H. & Morino, H. 2004: 68 |
| Morino, H. & Ortal, R. 1995: 825 |
| Richardson, A. M. M. 1991: 186 |
| Jo, Y. W. 1988: 160 |
| Bousfield, E. L. 1982: 26 |