A review of Gammaridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda): the family extent, its evolutionary history, and taxonomic redefinition of genera
Author
Hou, Zhonge
Author
Sket, Boris
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2016
2015-09-09
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12318
journal article
10.1111/zoj.12318
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GENUS
MARINOGAMMARUS
SCHELLENBERG, 1937
B
Type
species
Gammarus marinus
Leach, 1815
.
Aditional species
Molecularly (conditionally) proven (
Hou
et al
., 2014
) taxa are:
Gammarus obtusatus
Dahl, 1938
,
Marinogammarus pirloti
Sexton and Spooner, 1940
; probably also
Gammarus finmarchicus
Dahl, 1938
, and
Marinogammarus atlanticus
Dahl, 1958
.
Distribution
Marinogammarus
spp.
inhabit shallow eastern and north-western North Atlantic waters, particularly where influenced by freshwater inflow. If
G. olivii
belongs here, as supposed by
Sexton & Spooner (1940)
, the genus is also present in the Mediterranean.
Remarks
Marinogammarus
is a sister clade to
Homoeogammarus
+
Ponto-Caspian group of genera, and molecularly very distant from that sister group. It also differs in biogeography.