MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Menigrates obtusifrons (Boeck, 1861)

WoRMS taxon details

Menigrates obtusifrons (Boeck, 1861)

AphiaID

102620 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102620)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Menigrates Boeck, 1871

Original name

Anonyx obtusifrons Boeck, 1861

Synonymised names

Anonyx brachycercus Lilljeborg, 1865 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Anonyx obtusifrons Boeck, 1861 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Menigrates brachycercus (Lilljeborg, 1865) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Anonyx obtusifrons Boeck, 1861) Boeck, A. (1861). Bemaerkninger angaaende de ved de norske Kyster forekommende Amphipoder. Forhandl. Skand. Naturf. Ott. Mode i Kjopenhavn. 8: 631-677. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks;...

Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley) [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. Menigrates obtusifrons (Boeck, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102620 on 2025-04-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bellan-Santini, Denise

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

checked

Costello, Mark J.

2016-03-28 18:46:49Z

changed

Horton, Tammy

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Anonyx obtusifrons Boeck, 1861) Boeck, A. (1861). Bemaerkninger angaaende de ved de norske Kyster forekommende Amphipoder. Forhandl. Skand. Naturf. Ott. Mode i Kjopenhavn. 8: 631-677. [details]

original description (of Anonyx brachycercus Lilljeborg, 1865) Lilljeborg, W. (1865). Bidrag till kannedomen om underfamilien Lysianassina inom underordningen Amphipoda bland kraftdjuren. Uppsala Universitets Årsskrift. 1865: 1-25. [details]

Other

additional source Lincoln, R. J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History). 658 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

[request]

additional source Stebbing T.R.R. (1906). Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. Das Tiereich. 21, 1-806, 127 figs., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/998303#page/7/mode/1up
page(s): 48 [details]

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley) [details]

Habitat infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Menigrates obtusifrons)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Menigrates obtusifrons (Boeck, 1861)