Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 16 meters (54 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
()
- (Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass:
Crustacea
()
- Pennant, 1777
- Crustaceans
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
()
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
()
- Grobben, 1892
- Superorder:
Peracarida
()
- Calman, 1904
- Order:
Amphipoda
()
- Latreille, 1816
- Suborder:
Gammaridea
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Gammarid Amphipods
- Superfamily:
Ampeliscoidea
()
- Family:
Ampeliscidae
()
- Costa, 1857
- Genus:
Ampelisca
()
- Krøyer, 1842
- Specific name:
eschrichti
- Krøyer, 1842
- Scientific name: - Ampelisca eschrichti Krøyer, 1842
- Specific name:
eschrichti
- Krøyer, 1842
- Genus:
Ampelisca
(
- Family:
Ampeliscidae
(
- Superfamily:
Ampeliscoidea
(
- Suborder:
Gammaridea
(
- Order:
Amphipoda
(
- Superorder:
Peracarida
(
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Ampelisca Dubia • Ampelisca eschrichti Kr øyer • Ampelisca Eschrichtii • Ampelisca Ingens • Ampelisca Pelagicus • Ampelisca Propinqua
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Krøyer In: Naturhist.Tidsskrift,4(2), 1842.
Last scrutiny: 30-Dec-2004
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Further Reading
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- Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc., South African Museum, etc.] url p. 134.
- Biology of the seas of the U.S.S.R. Translated by S. Botcharskaya. New York, Interscience Publishers[1963] url p. 267, p. 813.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 377.
- Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 525.
- Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. London: Printed for the trustees of the South African Museum, 1916. url p. 134.
- Crustacea. Miscellaneous. [1894-1913] url p. 167.
- Environmental assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf: Annual reports of principal investigators. [Boulder, Colo.]: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Office of Marine Pollution Assessment, url p. 152.
- Hydrographical and biological investigations in Norwegian fiords. By O. Nordgaard. The protist plankton and the diatoms in bottom samples. By E. Jørgensen. With 21 plates and 10 figures in the text. Bergen, J. Grieg, 1905. url p. 183, p. 235, p. 236.
- NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 17, p. 9.
- Postilla. 1964 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 3, p. 3, p. 9, p. 9.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 5, p. 9.
- Publications in biological oceanography / Ottawa: The Museum, 1970-1982. url p. 18, p. 19, p. 2, p. 20, p. 3, p. 30, p. 31, p. 32, p. 33, p. 39.
- Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76: under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. / prepared under the superintendence of Sir C. Wyville Thomson. Edinburgh: Neill, 1880-1895. url p. 1036, p. 534.
- Reports. OttawaKing's Printer1917 url p. 29.
- The life history and ecology of the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) / by Dale W. Rice and Allen A. Wolman. [Stillwater, Okla.]American Society of Mammalogists, 1971. url p. 23.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bay of Fundy Species List (OBIS Canada)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Benthic fauna in the Pechora Sea
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NODC WOD01 Plankton Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2704088
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-93326
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13755666
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 93326
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 520669
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 86.050 based on 6 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
