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Urothoe Dana, 1852

Urothoe sp ANTXXIII-8 St-654-3 Elephant Island
Urothoe sp ANTXXIII-8 St-654-3 Elephant Island

101789  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101789)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Amphipoda (Order)
  10. Amphilochidea (Suborder)
  11. Lysianassida (Infraorder)
  12. Haustoriidira (Parvorder)
  13. Haustorioidea (Superfamily)
  14. Urothoidae (Family)
  15. Urothoe (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Urothoe irrostratus Dana, 1853 accepted as Urothoe irrostrata Dana, 1853 (type by subsequent designation)
Egidia A. Costa, 1853 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

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  1. Species Urothoe atlantica Bellan-Santini & Menioui, 2004
  2. Species Urothoe bairdii Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862
  3. Species Urothoe brevicornis Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862
  4. Species Urothoe carda Imbach, 1969
  5. Species Urothoe chosani Hirayama, 1992
  6. Species Urothoe convexa Kim & Kim, 1991
  7. Species Urothoe corsica Bellan-Santini, 1965
  8. Species Urothoe coxalis Griffiths, 1974
  9. Species Urothoe cuspis Imbach, 1969
  10. Species Urothoe dentata Schellenberg, 1925
  11. Species Urothoe denticulata Gurjanova, 1951
  12. Species Urothoe elegans Spence Bate, 1857
  13. Species Urothoe elizae Cooper & Fincham, 1974
  14. Species Urothoe falcata Schellenberg, 1931
  15. Species Urothoe gelasina Imbach, 1967
  16. Species Urothoe grimaldii Chevreux, 1895
  17. Species Urothoe hesperiae Conradi, Lopez-Gonzalez & Bellan-Santini, 1995
  18. Species Urothoe huanghaiensis Ren, 2012
  19. Species Urothoe intermedia Bellan-Santini & Ruffo, 1986
  20. Species Urothoe irrostrata Dana, 1853
  21. Species Urothoe latifrons Ren in Ren & Huang, 1991
  22. Species Urothoe leone Reid, 1951
  23. Species Urothoe marina (Spence Bate, 1857)
  24. Species Urothoe marionis Bellan-Santini & Ledoyer, 1987
  25. Species Urothoe oniscoides (K.H. Barnard, 1932)
  26. Species Urothoe orientalis Gurjanova, 1938
  27. Species Urothoe pestai Spandl, 1923
  28. Species Urothoe pinnata K.H. Barnard, 1955
  29. Species Urothoe platydactyla Rabindranath, 1971
  30. Species Urothoe platypoda Griffiths, 1974
  31. Species Urothoe poseidonis Reibish, 1905
  32. Species Urothoe poucheti Chevreux, 1888
  33. Species Urothoe pulchella (A. Costa, 1853)
  34. Species Urothoe rotundifrons J.L. Barnard, 1962
  35. Species Urothoe ruber Giles, 1890
  36. Species Urothoe serrudactyla Lyla, Velvizhi & Ajmal Khan, 1998
  37. Species Urothoe serrulidactylus K.H Barnard, 1955
  38. Species Urothoe sibuensis Azman & Melvin, 2011
  39. Species Urothoe spinidactyla Lyla, Velvizhi & Ajmal Khan, 1998
  40. Species Urothoe spinidigitata Walker, 1904
  41. Species Urothoe tinggiensis Azman & Melvin, 2011
  42. Species Urothoe tumorosa Griffiths, 1974
  43. Species Urothoe varvarini Gurjanova, 1953
  44. Species Urothoe vemae J.L. Barnard, 1962
  45. Species Urothoe viswanathi Lyla, Velvizhi & Ajmal Khan, 1998
  46. Species Urothoe wellingtonensis Cooper, 1974
  47. Species Urothoe abbreviata G. O. Sars, 1879 accepted as Urothoe elegans Spence Bate, 1857 (junior subjective synonym)
  48. Species Urothoe inermis Chevreux & Fage, 1925 accepted as Urothoe poseidonis Reibish, 1905 (Synonym)
  49. Species Urothoe irrostratus Dana, 1853 accepted as Urothoe irrostrata Dana, 1853 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
  50. Species Urothoe lachneessa Stebbing, 1888 accepted as Urothoides lachneessa (Stebbing, 1888) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  51. Species Urothoe norvegica Boeck, 1871 accepted as Urothoe bairdii Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862
  52. Species Urothoe norvegica Boeck, 1861 accepted as Urothoe elegans Spence Bate, 1857 (junior subjective synonym)
  53. Species Urothoe pectina Grube, 1868 accepted as Urothoe marina var. pectinatus Grube, 1869 accepted as Urothoe marina (Spence Bate, 1857) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  54. Species Urothoe pinguis Haswell, 1879 accepted as Urophoxus pinguis (Haswell, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  55. Species Urothoe rostratus Dana, 1853 accepted as Pontharpinia rostrata (Dana, 1853) accepted as Birubius rostratus (Dana, 1853) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  56. Species Urothoe ruber Giles, 1890 sensu Rabindranath, 1971 accepted as Urothoe serrulidactylus K.H Barnard, 1955
  57. Species Urothoe simplignathia J.L. Barnard, 1962 accepted as Caleidoscopsis simplignathia (J.L. Barnard, 1962) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. Paguridea, continued, Megalopidea and Macroura. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 14: 116-125. [details] 
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; 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.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Urothoe Dana, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101789 on 2025-07-17
Date
action
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan-Santini, Denise
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
checked
Costello, Mark J.
2007-02-14 04:43:23Z
changed
De Broyer, Claude
2011-01-05 10:31:20Z
changed
Lowry, Jim
2017-06-22 06:16:07Z
changed
Horton, Tammy
2021-09-15 07:39:49Z
changed
Horton, Tammy

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Nomenclature

original description Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. Paguridea, continued, Megalopidea and Macroura. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 14: 116-125. [details] 

original description (of Egidia A. Costa, 1853) Costa, A. (1853). Richerche sui crostacei amfipodi del regno di Napoli / del Dot. Achille Costa. <em>Mem. Reale Accad. Sc. Napoli.</em> 1, 165-235., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/2070#/summary [details] 

basis of record Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

context source (WoRCS) Navarro-Barranco, C.; Martínez, A.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Chebaane, S.; Digenis, M.; Plaitis, W.; Voultsiadou, E.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2023). Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge. <em>Diversity.</em> 15(12): 1180., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/12/1180 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details] 

additional source De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details] OpenAccess publication

subsequent type designation Stebbing T.R.R. (1891b). On the genus Urothoe and a new genus Urothoides. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 13, 1, 1-30. [details] OpenAccess publication

 
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Remark There are two species in Lyla, Velvizhi & Ajmal Khan, 1998 (Urothoe serrudactyla and Urothoe spinidactyla) which are attributed to Asari (as Peethambaran), but may be misspellings of U. serrulidactyla K.H. Barnard, 1955 and U. spinidigita Walker, 1904 from the same area.  [details]
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