Review of New Zealand Coastal Talitroids with description of three new genera (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata) Author Hughes, Lauren E. 0000-0002-5679-1732 l.hughes@nhm.ac.uk Author Lowry, James K. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-04-18 5268 1 1 81 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5268.1.1 journal article 250001 10.11646/zootaxa.5268.1.1 1f11027b-394e-4f01-8a2d-79d2c9bc1ecd 1175-5326 7840854 114B5413-5162-40A7-AAAE-E2E6371C3B6C Bellorchestia quoyana (Milne Edwards, 1884) ( Figs. 20–28 , 67 ) Talitrus brevicornis Milne Edwards, 1840: 15 , 19. Orchestia quoyana Milne Edwards, 1840: 15 , 19.—White, 1847: 86.— Thomson, 1899: 202 . Talorchestia quoyana .— Thomson & Chilton, 1886: 146 .— Stebbing, 1906: 547 .— Chilton, 1917: 294 , figs. 1–5b.— Chilton, 1927: 175 .— Stephensen, 1935: 11 .— Stephensen, 1948: 13 .— Hurley, 1956: 361 , figs. 1–25.—Lowry, 1974: 128, fig. 13. Bellorchestia quoyana .— Serejo & Lowry, 2008: 169 .— Lowry, 2012: 2 FIGURE 20. Bellorchestia quoyana ( Milne Edwards, 1840 ) habitus male, 18.5 mm, NIWA 104072, Ocean Beach, east coast of North Island, New Zealand. FIGURE 21. Bellorchestia quoyana ( Milne Edwards, 1840 ) male, 18.5 mm, NIWA 104072, Ocean Beach, east coast of North Island, New Zealand. Scales, 2 mm. Types . Presumed lost. Material examined. A male, 18 mm , dissected for SEM , AM P.99366, b female, 25 mm , dissected for SEM , AM P.99367, Maketu, North Island, coll. J.C. Wiburd, 25 April 1935 ; 23 specimens (including 15 mm , 16.3 mm , 17.5 mm , 18 mm , 19 mm , 20 mm , 21 mm , 22.5 mm , 23 mm ), AM P.10842, Maketu , North Island , coll. J.C. Wiburd , 25 April 1935 ; many specimens, AM P.3413, Dunedin , New Zealand ( 45°52'S 170°30'E ) collector and date unknown ; 2 specimens , male, 18.5 mm , dissected (parts in microvial) and female, 16 mm , not dissected, NIWA 104072 , Ocean Beach , east coast of North Island ( 35°48′56.412′′S 174°33′34.272′′E ), 0 m, 4 February 1991 (station Z16050) ; 2 specimens , male, 19/12 th of and inch, dry pinned, BMNH White 3 968.a–b, New Zealand ; 1 specimen , BMNH 1928.12 .1.2430, Dunedin , Donor Stebbing Collection ; 5 specimens (males 24 mm , 21 mm ; females 17 mm , 14 mm ; juvenile 10 mm ) BMNH 1928.12.1.2431–2435, Dunedin , Donor Stebbing Collection ; 3 females ( 17 mm , 14mm , 13mm ), BMNH 1907.12.2.86–87, sandy shores near Dunedin , Pres. University College Dundee . Type locality. New Zealand (no further details) . FIGURE 22. Bellorchestia quoyana ( Milne Edwards, 1840 ) , SEM, male, 18 mm, AM P. 99366, Maketu, North Island, New Zealand. Scales, A1, 500 µm; A2, 1 mm. Size. Males 24 mm , females 25 mm . Remarks. Historic Stebbing collections from the Natural History Museum, London and more recently collected material of B. quoyana from NIWA were compared, and additional illustrations of the species are provided based on the recent collections from the New Zealand , North Island. Habitat. S upralittoral. Distribution. New Zealand . South Island: Ross Beach; Westland; Waimakariri River, Kaiapoi Beach, Dunedin ( Chilton 1917 , Hurley 1956 , current study). North Island: Maketu, Ocean Beach (current study).