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Westwoodilla caecula (Spence Bate, 1857)

102932  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102932)

  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. Amphilochida (Infraorder)
  12. Oedicerotidira (Parvorder)
  13. Oedicerotoidea (Superfamily)
  14. Oedicerotidae (Family)
  15. Westwoodilla (Genus)
  16. Westwoodilla caecula (Species)
accepted
Species
Halimedon acutifrons G.O. Sars, 1892 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Halimedon mulleri Boeck, 1871 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Oediceros parvimanus Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Westwoodea caeculus Spence Bate, 1856 · unaccepted (nomen nudum, name in list only)
Westwoodia caecula Spence Bate, 1857 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Westwoodilla acutifrons (G.O. Sars, 1892) · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Westwoodilla hyalina Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Westwoodilla mulleri (Boeck, 1871) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Westwoodia caecula Spence Bate, 1857) Bate, C. S. (1857). A synopsis of the British edriophthalmous Crustacea. Part I. Amphipoda. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 2.</em> 19: 135-152.
page(s): 139 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Taxonomic remark The use of the name ‘Spence Bate’ instead of ‘Bate’ is discussed herein. See page 201.  
Taxonomic remark The use of the name ‘Spence Bate’ instead of ‘Bate’ is discussed herein. See page 201. [details]

Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American,...  
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait); lower North Shore [details]

Distribution widely reported, locally common  
Distribution widely reported, locally common [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. (2024). World Amphipoda Database. Westwoodilla caecula (Spence Bate, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102932 on 2024-09-08
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan-Santini, Denise
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
checked
Costello, Mark J.
2015-07-29 10:00:32Z
changed
Horton, Tammy
2023-02-19 13:36:29Z
changed
Horton, Tammy

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original description  (of Halimedon acutifrons G.O. Sars, 1892) Sars, G.O. (1892). Amphipoda. Part XV. Oediceridae (concluded). An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. I: 321-340, pls 113-120. Cammermeyer, Christiana (Oslo)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10925992
page(s): 329 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Westwoodia caecula Spence Bate, 1857) Bate, C. S. (1857). A synopsis of the British edriophthalmous Crustacea. Part I. Amphipoda. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 2.</em> 19: 135-152.
page(s): 139 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Westwoodilla hyalina Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862) Bate, C. S. & J. O. Westwood. (1861-1863). A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Vol. 1. <em>John Van Voorst, London.</em> 507 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/1936#/summary
page(s): 158 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Oediceros parvimanus Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862) Bate, C. S. & J. O. Westwood. (1861-1863). A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Vol. 1. <em>John Van Voorst, London.</em> 507 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/1936#/summary
page(s): 161 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Halimedon mulleri Boeck, 1871) Boeck, A. (1871). Crustacea amphipoda borealia et arctica. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1870: 83-280., available online at https://archive.org/details/crustaceaamphipo00boec
page(s): 89 (169) [details]  OpenAccess publication 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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]   

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Bachelet, G.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Sorbe, J. C. (2003). An updated checklist of marine and brackish water Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the southern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic). <em>Cah. Biol. Mar.</em> 44(2): 121-151. (look up in IMIS) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Lincoln, R. J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 658 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark The use of the name ‘Spence Bate’ instead of ‘Bate’ is discussed herein. See page 201. [details]

From other sources
Authority (Bate, 1856) [details]

Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait); lower North Shore [details]

Distribution widely reported, locally common [details]

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

Synonymy In the printed version of ERMS, W. caecula s.l. is listed as synonym of both W. acutifrons and W. megalops. At the same time, W. megalops is listed as a synonym of W. caecula. [details]
    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Westwoodilla mulleri (Boeck, 1871))
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Westwoodilla hyalina Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Halimedon parvimanus (Spence Bate & Westwood, 1863) sensu Norman, 1889)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Westwoodilla acutifrons (G.O. Sars, 1892))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Westwoodia caecula Spence Bate, 1857)
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Westwoodilla caecula) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Westwoodilla acutifrons (G.O. Sars, 1892))
To PESI (from synonym Halimedon parvimanus (Spence Bate & Westwood, 1863) sensu Norman, 1889)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (6 records) (from synonym Westwoodilla acutifrons (G.O. Sars, 1892))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (9 records) 
To ITIS
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