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— 
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(part).— 
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(part).—Chevreux &amp; 
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: 227
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(part).— 
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: 750
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(part).— 
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.— 
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.—Barnard J.L., 1969: 245 (part).— 
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–666 (part).— 
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contains 20 species in the North Pacific (
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; Lowry 2015a; 
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): 
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Jarrett &amp; 
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, 
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, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FB3EF8B6C58704DA" authority="Yamato, 1987" authorityName="Yamato" authorityYear="1987" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bingoensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FB3EF8B6C0610426" box="[1171,1332,1877,1902]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. bingoensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FA92F8B6C58704DA" author="Yamato" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Yamato, S. (1987) Four intertidal species of the genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Japanese waters, including descriptions of two new species. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 32 (4 / 6), 275 - 302." type="journal article" year="1987">Yamato, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FF4CF89AC77004DA" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" box="[225,549,1913,1938]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="donghaiensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FF4CF89AC4CA04DA" box="[225,415,1913,1938]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. donghaiensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FE07F89AC77004DA" author="Ren" box="[426,549,1914,1938]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren, 2012</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FD99F89AC63804DA" authority="Yamato, 1990" authorityName="Yamato" authorityYear="1990" box="[564,877,1913,1938]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hoshinoi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FD99F89AC7EB04DA" box="[564,702,1913,1938]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. hoshinoi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FD67F89AC63804DA" author="Yamato" box="[714,877,1914,1938]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Yamato, S. (1990) Two new species of the genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from shallow waters of the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 34 (4 / 6), 149 - 165." type="journal article" year="1990">Yamato, 1990</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FCD1F89AC18D04DA" authority="Stephensen, 1944" authorityName="Stephensen" authorityYear="1944" box="[892,1240,1913,1938]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="koreana">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FCD1F89AC15404DA" box="[892,1025,1913,1938]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. koreana</emphasis>
Stephensen, 1944
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FB45F89AC43304FE" authority="Stephensen, 1944" authorityName="Stephensen" authorityYear="1944" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laevidorsum">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FB45F89AC0C904DA" box="[1256,1436,1913,1938]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. laevidorsum</emphasis>
Stephensen, 1944
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FED4F87EC7AA04FE" authority="Hirayama, 1987" authorityName="Hirayama" authorityYear="1987" box="[377,767,1949,1974]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longidactyla">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FED4F87EC76404FE" box="[377,561,1949,1974]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. longidactyla</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FDEDF87DC7AA04FE" author="Hirayama" box="[576,767,1949,1974]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Hirayama, A. (1987) Taxonomic studies on the shallow water Gammaridean Amphipoda of west Kyushu, Japan 7. Melitidae (Melita), Melphidippidae etc. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 32, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="1987">Hirayama, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FCBCF87EC11D04FE" authority="Yamato, 1987" authorityName="Yamato" authorityYear="1987" box="[785,1096,1950,1974]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nagatai">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FCBCF87EC6C604FD" box="[785,915,1950,1973]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. nagatai</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FC0FF87EC11D04FE" author="Yamato" box="[930,1096,1950,1974]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Yamato, S. (1987) Four intertidal species of the genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Japanese waters, including descriptions of two new species. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 32 (4 / 6), 275 - 302." type="journal article" year="1987">Yamato, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FBF6F87EC03E04FE" authority="Smith, 1873" authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1873" box="[1115,1387,1949,1974]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FBF6F87EC19C04FE" box="[1115,1225,1949,1974]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. nitida</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FB75F87DC03E04FE" author="Smith" box="[1240,1387,1949,1974]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Smith, S. I. (1873 - 1874) Crustacea, ex. Isopoda. Report upon the invertebrate animals of Vineyard Sound and adjacent waters, with an account of the physical features of the region by A. E. Verrill and S. I. Smith. Government Printing Office, Washington, 295 - 778." type="book chapter" year="1873">
<collectingRegion id="D336F822FFCAFF98FB75F87DC04B04FE" box="[1240,1310,1949,1974]" country="Bermuda" name="Smith's" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Smith</collectingRegion>
, 1873
</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FAD0F87EC4940492" authority="Labay, 2003" authorityName="Labay" authorityYear="2003" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitidaformis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FAD0F87EC4750492" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. nitidaformis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FE80F821C4940492" author="Labay" box="[301,449,1985,2010]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Labay, V. S. (2003) A new species of Melita Leach (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from oligosaline waters of Russian Far East. Zootaxa, 356, 1 - 8." type="journal article" year="2003">Labay, 2003</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FE7EF822C63B0492" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1954" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1954" box="[467,878,1985,2010]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oregonensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FE7EF822C7D00491" box="[467,645,1986,2009]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M. oregonensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FD3EF822C63B0492" author="Barnard" box="[659,878,1985,2010]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1954) Marine Amphipoda of Oregon. Oregon State Monographs, Studies in Zoology, 8, 1 - 103." type="journal article" year="1954">J.L. Barnard, 1954</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FC2DF821C69C0492" box="[896,969,1985,2010]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FC2DF821C69C0492" box="[896,969,1985,2010]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(?) 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCAFF98FBA9F822C0390492" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1940" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1940" box="[1028,1388,1985,2010]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orgasmos">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FBA9F822C1250491" box="[1028,1136,1986,2009]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">orgasmos</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCAFF98FBD0F822C0390492" author="Barnard" box="[1149,1388,1985,2010]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1940) Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. XII. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of the hitherto recorded marine and freshwater species. Annals of the South African Museum, 32, 381 - 543." type="journal article" year="1940">K.H. Barnard, 1940</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCAFF98FAD0F822C0C90491" box="[1405,1436,1986,2009]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">M.</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFCBFF99FF3AFF77C67C01E0" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF3AFF77C0D50128" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FF3AFF77C4B903F8" ID-CoL="3ZK3V" authority="Hirayama, 1987" authorityName="Hirayama" authorityYear="1987" box="[151,492,151,176]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilopropoda">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FF3AFF77C47403F8" box="[151,289,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">pilopropoda</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FE80FF77C4B903F8" author="Hirayama" box="[301,492,151,176]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Hirayama, A. (1987) Taxonomic studies on the shallow water Gammaridean Amphipoda of west Kyushu, Japan 7. Melitidae (Melita), Melphidippidae etc. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 32, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="1987">Hirayama, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FE50FF79C62E03F8" ID-CoL="3ZK3Y" authority="Yamato, 1990" authorityName="Yamato" authorityYear="1990" box="[509,891,151,176]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quadridentata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FE50FF79C79C03F8" box="[509,713,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. quadridentata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FD7BFF78C62E03F8" author="Yamato" box="[726,891,152,176]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Yamato, S. (1990) Two new species of the genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from shallow waters of the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 34 (4 / 6), 149 - 165." type="journal article" year="1990">Yamato, 1990</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FC20FF79C1B703F8" ID-CoL="3ZK46" authority="Bulycheva, 1955" authorityName="Bulycheva" authorityYear="1955" box="[909,1250,151,176]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rylovae">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FC20FF79C15803F8" box="[909,1037,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. rylovae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FBB6FF77C1B703F8" author="Bulycheva" box="[1051,1250,151,176]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Bulycheva, A. I. (1955). Novye vidy bokoplavov (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) is Yaponskogo Morya. AN SSSR, Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, 21, 193 - 207. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1955">Bulycheva, 1955</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FB59FF79C462039C" ID-CoL="3ZK49" authority="Yamato, 1988" authorityName="Yamato" authorityYear="1988" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="setiflagella">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FB59FF79C0C903F8" box="[1268,1436,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. setiflagella</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FF3AFF5DC462039C" author="Yamato" box="[151,311,188,212]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Yamato, S. (1988) Two species of the genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from brackish waters in Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 33 (1 / 3), 79 - 95." type="journal article" year="1988">Yamato, 1988</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FEEEFF5DC732039C" ID-CoL="3ZK4B" authority="Ueno, 1940" authorityName="Ueno" authorityYear="1940" box="[323,615,188,213]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="shimizui">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FEEEFF5DC493039D" box="[323,454,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. shimizui</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FE7BFF5CC70A039C" author="Ueno" box="[470,607,188,212]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Ueno, M. (1940) Some freshwater amphipods from Manchoukuo, Corea and Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 10, 63 - 85." type="journal article" year="1940">Uéno, 1940</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FDDEFF5DC624039C" ID-CoL="3ZK4H" authority="Stout, 1913" authorityName="Stout" authorityYear="1913" box="[627,881,188,213]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sulca">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FDDEFF5DC781039D" box="[627,724,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. sulca</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FD48FF5CC63C039C" author="Stout" box="[741,873,188,212]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Stout, V. R. (1913) Studies in Laguna Amphipoda. II. Zoologische Jahrbuecher Jena Abteilungen f Systematik, 34, 633 - 659. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 19898" type="journal article" year="1913">Stout, 1913</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FC04FF5DC1A4039D" ID-CoL="3ZK4K" authority="Nagata, 1965" authorityName="Nagata" authorityYear="1965" box="[937,1265,188,213]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tuberculata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FC04FF5DC105039D" box="[937,1104,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. tuberculata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FBF5FF5DC1A4039D" author="Nagata" box="[1112,1265,188,213]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. 15 species are inhabitants of the Equatorial and South Pacific and of the Indian Ocean: 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FC66FF01C1A903B0" ID-CoL="3ZJZL" authority="Ledoyer, 1983" authorityName="Ledoyer" authorityYear="1983" box="[971,1276,223,248]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alluaudi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FC66FF01C11B03B0" box="[971,1102,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. alluaudi</emphasis>
Ledoyer, 1983
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FAAAFF01C4C90254" ID-CoL="3ZJZW" authority="Garcia-Madrigal, 2010" authorityName="Garcia-Madrigal" authorityYear="2010" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bousfieldi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FAAAFF01C0CE03B0" box="[1287,1435,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. bousfieldi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FF3AFEE4C4C90254" author="Garcia-Madrigal" box="[151,412,260,285]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Garcia-Madrigal, M. S. (2010) Littoral Maeridae and Melitidae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Zootaxa, 2623, 1 - 51." type="journal article" year="2010">García-Madrigal, 2010</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FE04FEE5C78B0254" ID-CoL="3ZJZZ" authority="Croker, 1971" authorityName="Croker" authorityYear="1971" box="[425,734,260,285]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="celericula">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FE04FEE5C7150255" box="[425,576,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. celericula</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FDE5FEE4C78B0254" author="Croker" box="[584,734,260,285]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Croker, R. A. (1971) A new species of Melita (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Pacific Science, 25, 100 - 108." type="journal article" year="1971">Croker, 1971</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FD41FEE5C1C50255" ID-CoL="3ZK25" authority="Appadoo &amp; Myers, 2005" authorityName="Appadoo &amp; Myers" authorityYear="2005" box="[748,1168,260,285]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="corticis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FD41FEE5C6320254" box="[748,871,261,284]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. corticis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FCDDFEE4C1C50255" author="Appadoo" box="[880,1168,260,285]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Appadoo, C. &amp; Myers, A. A. (2005) Amphipoda of the genera Ceradocus, Dulichiella, Melita and Nuuanu (Crustacea: Melitidae) from Mauritius, Indian Ocean. Records of the Australian Museums, 57, 221 - 236. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.57.2005.1444" type="journal article" year="2005">Appadoo &amp; Myers, 2005</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FB31FEE5C5870208" ID-CoL="3ZK2T" authority="Dana, 1852" authorityName="Dana" authorityYear="1852" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="inaequistylis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FB31FEE5C0040255" box="[1180,1361,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. inaequistylis</emphasis>
Dana, 1852
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FF71FEC9C77C0208" ID-CoL="3ZK2V" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1972" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1972" box="[220,553,295,320]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kauerti">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FF71FEC9C4050208" box="[220,336,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. kauerti</emphasis>
J.L. Barnard, 1972
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FD98FEC9C62D0208" ID-CoL="6QY57" authority="G. Karaman, 1987" authorityName="G. Karaman" authorityYear="1987" box="[565,888,296,320]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="myersi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FD98FEC9C7F00208" box="[565,677,297,320]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. myersi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FD06FEC8C62D0208" author="Karaman" box="[683,888,296,320]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Karaman, G. (1987) A new species of genus Melita Leach (Fam. Melitidae) from Bermuda and Fiji Islands (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 173). Glasnik Prirodnjackog Muzeja U Beogradu, Series B, 42, 19 - 35." type="journal article" year="1987">G. Karaman, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FC29FEC9C1DA0208" ID-CoL="3ZK3J" authority="Ruffo, 1958" authorityName="Ruffo" authorityYear="1958" box="[900,1167,295,320]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitidula">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FC29FEC9C6AA0208" box="[900,1023,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. nitidula</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FBABFEC7C1DA0208" author="Ruffo" box="[1030,1167,295,320]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Ruffo, S. (1958) Amphipodes terrestres et des eaux continentales de Madagascar, des Comores et de La Reunion. (Etudes sur les Crustaces Amphipodes. - L). Memoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Series A, 12, 35 - 66." type="journal article" year="1958">Ruffo, 1958</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FB37FEC9C421022D" ID-CoL="3ZK3M" authority="Lowry &amp; Springthorpe, 2005" authorityName="Lowry &amp; Springthorpe" authorityYear="2005" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ophiocola">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FB37FEC9C07B0208" box="[1178,1326,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. ophiocola</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FA98FEC8C421022D" author="Lowry" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Lowry, J. K. &amp; Springthorpe, R. T. (2005) New and little-known melitid amphipods from Australian waters (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 57, 237 - 302. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.57.2005.1463" type="journal article" year="2005">Lowry &amp; Springthorpe, 2005</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FE2FFEADC657022C" ID-CoL="3ZK3P" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1940" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1940" box="[386,770,332,357]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orgasmos">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FE2FFEADC743022C" box="[386,534,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. orgasmos</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FDB3FEADC657022C" author="Barnard" box="[542,770,332,357]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1940) Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. XII. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of the hitherto recorded marine and freshwater species. Annals of the South African Museum, 32, 381 - 543." type="journal article" year="1940">K.H. Barnard, 1940</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FCA2FEADC122022C" ID-CoL="3ZK3Q" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1970" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1970" box="[783,1143,332,357]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pahuwai">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FCA2FEADC6C2022D" box="[783,919,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. pahuwai</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FC0DFEADC122022C" author="Barnard" box="[928,1143,332,357]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1970) Sublittoral Gammaridea (Amphipoda) of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 13, 1 - 286. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.34" type="journal article" year="1970">J.L. Barnard, 1970</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FB29FEADC42702C0" ID-CoL="3ZK47" authority="Lowry &amp; Springthorpe, 2009" authorityName="Lowry &amp; Springthorpe" authorityYear="2009" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sampsonae">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FB29FEADC07C022C" box="[1156,1321,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. sampsonae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FA9FFEADC42702C0" author="Lowry" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Lowry, J. K. &amp; Springthorpe, R. T. (2009) Melitidae, the Melita group. In: Lowry, J. K. &amp; Myers, A. A. (Eds.), Amphipoda of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa, 2260, 718 - 735." type="journal article" year="2009">Lowry &amp; Springthorpe, 2009</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FED0FE91C67102C0" ID-CoL="6QXT7" authority="Appadoo &amp; Myers, 2005" authorityName="Appadoo &amp; Myers" authorityYear="2005" box="[381,804,367,392]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="setimera">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FED0FE91C75602C0" box="[381,515,369,392]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. setimera</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FDA4FE8FC67102C0" author="Appadoo" box="[521,804,367,392]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Appadoo, C. &amp; Myers, A. A. (2005) Amphipoda of the genera Ceradocus, Dulichiella, Melita and Nuuanu (Crustacea: Melitidae) from Mauritius, Indian Ocean. Records of the Australian Museums, 57, 221 - 236. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.57.2005.1444" type="journal article" year="2005">Appadoo &amp; Myers, 2005</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FC82FE91C13B02C0" ID-CoL="3ZK4P" authority="Stebbing, 1904" authorityName="Stebbing" authorityYear="1904" box="[815,1134,367,392]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="zeylanica">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FC82FE91C6EB02C0" box="[815,958,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. zeylanica</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FC68FE8FC13B02C0" author="Stebbing" box="[965,1134,367,392]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Stebbing, T. R. R. (1904) Gregarious crustacea from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 2 (5), 1 - 29." type="journal article" year="1904">Stebbing, 1904</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FB09FE91C42202E4" authority="Bradbury &amp; Eberhard, 2000" authorityName="Bradbury &amp; Eberhard" authorityYear="2000" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="poulteri">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FB09FE91C07702C0" box="[1188,1314,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. poulteri</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FA9DFE8FC43A02E4" author="Bradbury" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Bradbury, J. H. &amp; Eberhard, S. (2000) A new stygobiont melitid amphipod from the Nullarbor Plain. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 20 (1), 39 - 50." type="journal article" year="2000">Bradbury &amp; Eberhard, 2000</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. Different parts of the Atlantic are inhabited by 15 species: 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FBE4FE75C03B02E4" ID-CoL="3ZJZY" authority="Karaman, 1978" authorityName="Karaman" authorityYear="1978" box="[1097,1390,404,429]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bulla">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FBE4FE75C1FB02E5" box="[1097,1198,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. bulla</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FB14FE75C03B02E4" author="Karaman" box="[1209,1390,404,428]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Karaman, G. (1978) On two Melita species (Fam. Gammaridae) from the Mediterranean Sea, M. bulla n. sp. and M. valesi S. Kar. 1955. Bolletino Museo civico Storia natural Verona, 5, 221 - 237." type="journal article" year="1978">Karaman, 1978</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FAD0FE75C4C90298" ID-CoL="3ZK24" authority="Heller, 1866" authorityName="Heller" authorityYear="1866" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="coroninii">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FAD0FE75C5A90298" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. coroninii</emphasis>
Heller, 1866
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FE01FE59C7A30298" ID-CoL="3ZK2D" authority="Sheridan, 1980" authorityName="Sheridan" authorityYear="1980" box="[428,758,439,464]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elongata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FE01FE59C76D0298" box="[428,568,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. elongata</emphasis>
Sheridan, 1980
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FCABFE59C0380298" ID-CoL="3ZK2N" authority="Ortiz, Garcia-Debras &amp; Lalana, 2002" authorityName="Ortiz, Garcia-Debras &amp; Lalana" authorityYear="2002" box="[774,1389,439,464]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="guanaense">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FCABFE59C6FC0298" box="[774,937,441,464]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. guanaense</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FC18FE57C0380298" author="Ortiz" box="[949,1389,439,464]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Ortiz, M., Garcia-Debras, A. &amp; Lalana, R. (2002) A new anchialine amphipod crustacean of the genus Melita (Gammaridea: Melitidae), from the Island of Cuba. Avicennia, 15, 43 - 52." type="journal article" year="2002">Ortiz, Garcia-Debras &amp; Lalana, 2002</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FAD0FE59C4D002BC" ID-CoL="3ZK2Q" authority="Reid, 1939" authorityName="Reid" authorityYear="1939" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hergensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FAD0FE59C45402BD" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. hergensis</emphasis>
Reid, 1939
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FE22FE3DC78B02BC" ID-CoL="739SW" authority="Sheridan, 1979" authorityName="Sheridan" authorityYear="1979" box="[399,734,476,501]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedia">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FE22FE3DC77902BD" box="[399,556,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. intermedia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FD9EFE3CC78B02BC" author="Sheridan" box="[563,734,476,501]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Sheridan, P. F. (1979) Three new species of Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda), with notes of the Amphipod fauna of the Apalachicola estuary of northwest Florida. Northeast Gulf Science, 3 (2), 60 - 73." type="journal article" year="1979">Sheridan, 1979</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FD44FE3DC14402BD" ID-CoL="3ZK2Y" authority="Oliveira, 1953" authorityName="Oliveira" authorityYear="1953" box="[745,1041,476,501]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lagunae">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FD44FE3DC63D02BD" box="[745,872,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. lagunae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FCC3FE3CC14402BD" author="Oliveira" box="[878,1041,476,501]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Oliveira, L. P. H. (1953) Crustacea Amphipoda do Rio de Janeiro. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 51, 289 - 376. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0074 - 02761953000100009" type="journal article" year="1953">Oliveira, 1953</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FBB0FE3DC02602BC" ID-CoL="3ZK36" authority="Sheridan, 1980" authorityName="Sheridan" authorityYear="1980" box="[1053,1395,476,501]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longisetosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FBB0FE3DC19702BD" box="[1053,1218,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. longisetosa</emphasis>
Sheridan, 1980
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FAD0FE3DC4EC0150" ID-CoL="3ZK38" authority="Oliveira, 1953" authorityName="Oliveira" authorityYear="1953" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mangrovi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FAD0FE3DC4540150" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. mangrovi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FEA3FE1FC4EC0150" author="Oliveira" box="[270,441,511,536]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Oliveira, L. P. H. (1953) Crustacea Amphipoda do Rio de Janeiro. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 51, 289 - 376. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0074 - 02761953000100009" type="journal article" year="1953">Oliveira, 1953</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FE66FDE1C6730150" authority="Montagu, 1804" authorityName="Montagu" authorityYear="1804" box="[459,806,511,536]" class="Malacostraca" family="Cancridae" genus="Cancer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="palmata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FE66FDE1C7060150" box="[459,595,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. palmata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FDCAFDE0C64A0150" author="Montagu" box="[615,799,512,536]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Montagu, G. (1804) Description of several Marine Animals found on the South Coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 7, 61 - 85. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1804. tb 00282. x" type="journal article" year="1804">Montagu, 1804</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FC95FDE1C1F50150" ID-CoL="6QXSV" authority="G. Karaman, 1987" authorityName="G. Karaman" authorityYear="1987" box="[824,1184,512,536]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="persona">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FC95FDE1C6EA0150" box="[824,959,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. persona</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FC61FDE0C1F50150" author="Karaman" box="[972,1184,512,536]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Karaman, G. (1987) A new species of genus Melita Leach (Fam. Melitidae) from Bermuda and Fiji Islands (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 173). Glasnik Prirodnjackog Muzeja U Beogradu, Series B, 42, 19 - 35." type="journal article" year="1987">G. Karaman, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FB1FFDE1C7240174" ID-CoL="7ZKNP" authority="Senna, Sorrentino, Machado and Torrent, 2012" authorityName="Senna, Sorrentino, Machado and Torrent" authorityYear="2012" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="petronioi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FB1FFDE1C0160150" box="[1202,1347,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. petronioi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FAFDFDE0C7240174" author="Senna" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Senna, A. R., Sorrentino, R., Machado, A. N. S. &amp; Torrent, P. (2012) A new species of Melita Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda: Hadzioidea: Melitidae) from Patos Lagoon, southern Brazil. Nauplius, 20 (2), 125 - 135. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0104 - 64972012000200005" type="journal article" year="2012">Senna, Sorrentino, Machado and Torrent, 2012</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FD2EFDC5C68C0174" ID-CoL="3ZK3W" authority="Kunkel, 1910" authorityName="Kunkel" authorityYear="1910" box="[643,985,548,573]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="planaterga">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FD2EFDC5C67C0175" box="[643,809,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. planaterga</emphasis>
Kunkel, 1910
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FC46FDC5C06C0174" ID-CoL="3ZK4F" authority="G. Karaman, 1987" authorityName="G. Karaman" authorityYear="1987" box="[1003,1337,548,573]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stocki">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FC46FDC5C10D0175" box="[1003,1112,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. stocki</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FBCAFDC4C06C0174" author="Karaman" box="[1127,1337,548,572]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Karaman, G. (1987) A new species of genus Melita Leach (Fam. Melitidae) from Bermuda and Fiji Islands (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 173). Glasnik Prirodnjackog Muzeja U Beogradu, Series B, 42, 19 - 35." type="journal article" year="1987">G. Karaman, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FAD0FDC5C4AA0128" ID-CoL="3ZK4J" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1965" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1965" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tristanensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FAD0FDC5C44C0128" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. tristanensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FEB2FDA8C4AA0128" author="Barnard" box="[287,511,583,608]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1965) Isopoda and Amphipoda collected by the Gough Island Scientific Survey. Annals of the South African Museum, 48, 195 - 210." type="journal article" year="1965">K.H. Barnard, 1965</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FDA6FDA9C15D0128" ID-CoL="3ZK3C" authority="Krapp-Schickel and Sket, 2015" authorityName="Krapp-Schickel and Sket" authorityYear="2015" box="[523,1032,583,608]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mirzajanii">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FDA6FDA9C7F60128" box="[523,675,585,608]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. mirzajanii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FD07FDA7C15D0128" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[682,1032,583,608]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel and Sket, 2015</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
is endemic of Caspian Sea-Lake.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AFD8CC67C01E0" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<materialsCitation id="A19A3C9DFFCBFF99FF6AFD8CC67C01E0" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1300093459" country="Fiji" location="South Pacific" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Tasman">
Species incertae cedis:? 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FE74FD8DC7BC01CD" ID-CoL="3ZK4D" authority="Myers, 1985" authorityName="Myers" authorityYear="1985" box="[473,745,620,645]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simplex">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FE74FD8DC70601CD" box="[473,595,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. simplex</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FDF6FD8DC7BC01CD" author="Myers" box="[603,745,620,645]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Myers, A. A. (1985) Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Records Australian Museum, 5 (Supplement), 1 - 143. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.5.1985.99" type="journal article" year="1985">Myers, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from 
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, 
<collectingCountry id="69E57650FFCBFF99FC7EFD8CC6AB01CD" box="[979,1022,620,645]" name="Fiji" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Fiji</collectingCountry>
;? 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFCBFF99FBB8FD8DC00B01CD" ID-CoL="6QY4V" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1961" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1961" box="[1045,1374,620,645]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="solada">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FBB8FD8DC1D301CD" box="[1045,1158,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">M. solada</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FB21FD8DC00B01CD" author="Barnard" box="[1164,1374,620,645]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1961) Gammaridean Amphipoda: from depths of 400 to 6000 meters. Galathea Report, 5, 23 - 128." type="journal article" year="1961">J.L. Barnard, 1961</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from abyssal depths of 
<collectingRegion id="D336F822FFCBFF99FEF2FD70C4E301EF" box="[351,438,656,679]" country="New Zealand" name="Tasman" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Tasman</collectingRegion>
Sea (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FE5EFD6FC7C401E0" author="Barnard" box="[499,657,655,680]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1961) Gammaridean Amphipoda: from depths of 400 to 6000 meters. Galathea Report, 5, 23 - 128." type="journal article" year="1961">Barnard 1961</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FD30FD70C64801E0" author="Myer" box="[669,797,655,680]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Myers, A. A. (1985) Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Records Australian Museum, 5 (Supplement), 1 - 143. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.5.1985.99" type="journal article" year="1985">Myer 1985</bibRefCitation>
).
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFCBFF99FF6AFD54C063044D" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AFD54C10F007F" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FF6AFD54C46F0185" bold="true" box="[199,314,692,717]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Diagnosis</emphasis>
(from 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FE22FD55C7F90185" author="Jarret" box="[399,684,692,717]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
, with additions). Head, inferior antennal sinus variously incised, anterior and posterior lobes rounded. Pleon segments usually not (or very weakly) dorsally toothed. Urosome segment 1 with or without dorsal tooth. Urosome segment 2 with paired dorsal teeth and / or spine groups. Antennae strong; antenna 2, flagellar segments often ringed with “bottle-brush” setae.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AFCA4C7E000A5" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Mandible, right lacinia spike-like, multidenticulate; left lacinia 4-dentate; palp normal, not reduced, 3- articulate, articles 2 and 3 with few setae each. Maxilla 1, outer plate with 9 apical strong setae; inner plate subquadratic, elongated, with truncated or rounded distal margin, setae located only on the distal margin, not on the inner margin. Maxilla 2, inner plate with distal marginal setae only. Maxilliped plates strong; palp segment 2 sublinear; article 3 bilobed; dactyl stout, curved.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AFC18C42E0678" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Coxae 1–4 medium, uniformly deep, rounded below. Pereopod 1 (gnathopod 1) of males, basis anteriorly setose; carpus slender, sublinear; propodus shorter, anterior margin convex, palm excavated at basal part, with protruding rounded lobe at the posterior part, distally overhanging base of short, basally bulging dactylus. Pereopod 1 of female, carpus relatively deep, lower margin convex; palm of propodus transverse, dactylus regular. Pereopod 2 (gnthopod 2) of males, basis with few antero-distal setae; carpus short, deep, length of posterior lobe about half anterior margin; medial face of propodus with large richly setose distal depression; palm regulary convex, oblique, without distinct palmar angle and palmar tooth, setose; dactyl relatively short. Pereopod 2 of female relatively small, carpus and propodus shallow, subequal in length; palm oblique, nearly straight, without palmar corner tooth.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AFADCC4D706AD" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Pereopod 3 distinctly larger than pereopod 4, dactylus medium size or short. Pereopods 6 and 7 larger than pereopod 5; coxae 5 and 6 distinctly anterolobate; coxae 6 of females, anterior lobe forming a deep, gently curved hook-like processes; bases broad, smoothly convex behind, lower lobes shallow but distinct. Pereopod 5, merus stout, moderately broadened. Pereopods 6 and 7, merus longer than carpus; margins of propodus with short stout setae; dactylus short.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AFA0FC79405D0" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Pleon plate 3, hind corner moderately produced, acute or with small tooth, lower margin weakly serrate distally. Uropod 1, peduncle with strong interramal spur, rami subequal or outer ramus slightly shorter. Uropod 2, rami subequal or outer ramus short, margins strongly “spinose”. Uropod 3, inner ramus very small; outer ramus strong, about twice length of, and broader than peduncle, margins of segment 1 with up to 8 clusters of stout setae (“spines”), segment 2 short or vestigial or absent.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AF944C6F205A8" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Telson lobes medium, narrowing distally, inner margins with up to 4 short stout setae (“spines”), apices subacute, each with 2–3 strong stout setae, lateral notches evanescent.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AF90CC063044D" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,1334,1772,1797]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Coxal gills on pereopods 2–5 medium large, saclike; gill on pereopod 6 distinctly smaller, less broad.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFCBFF99FF6AF8EFC4EA0404" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AF8EFC4EA0404" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FF6AF8EFC4350460" bold="true" box="[199,352,1807,1832]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Distribution.</emphasis>
Warm waters of Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Inhabit coastal sea waters, lagoons, estuaries and fresh waters.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFCBFF99FF6AF8B7C1F90494" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFCBFF99FF6AF8B7C1F90494" blockId="47.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FF6AF8B7C46E0438" bold="true" box="[199,315,1879,1904]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Remarks.</emphasis>
There is considerable confusion in definition of the true scope of the genus 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FB3FF8B7C18E0438" box="[1170,1243,1879,1904]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Modern authors (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FF33F89CC4BB04DD" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[158,494,1916,1941]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket 2015</bibRefCitation>
; Lowry 2015a; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFCBFF99FD0EF89DC64604DC" author="Ren" box="[675,787,1916,1940]" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren 2012</bibRefCitation>
) include into this genus species are already belonging to other well distinguishable genera. In addition, some species have a set of features that allow move them into new genera (see above). Below we discuss the species, which are placed outside the genus 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFCBFF99FBF1F824C1F00495" box="[1116,1189,1988,2013]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFD4FF86FF6AFF77C66D07F5" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFF77C021039C" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFF77C73303F8" ID-CoL="3ZJZH" authority="Stephensen, 1944" authorityName="Stephensen" authorityYear="1944" box="[199,614,151,176]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abyssorum">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFF77C4C603F8" box="[199,403,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita abyssorum</emphasis>
Stephensen, 1944
</taxonomicName>
is listed by 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD57FF77C10F03F8" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[762,1114,151,176]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
and by Lowry (2015a) is a member of the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE24FF5CC747039D" ID-CoL="7PX8L" box="[393,530,188,213]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE24FF5CC747039D" box="[393,530,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Quasimelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FD9AFF5DC6E4039C" ID-CoL="3ZJZH" authority="Stephensen, 1944" authorityName="Stephensen" authorityYear="1944" box="[567,945,188,213]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abyssorum">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FD9AFF5DC786039D" box="[567,723,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Q. abyssorum</emphasis>
(Stephensen, 1944)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FC6DFF5CC186039D" author="Jarret" box="[960,1235,188,213]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FB73FF5CC03D039C" author="Labay" box="[1246,1384,188,213]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Labay, V. S. (2014) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934. Zootaxa, 3689 (3), 237 - 280. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3869.3.3" type="journal article" year="2014">Labay 2014</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFF3FC6400254" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFF3FC76E03B0" ID-CoL="3ZJZJ" authority="Chevreux, 1911" authorityName="Chevreux" authorityYear="1911" box="[199,571,223,248]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aculeata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFF3FC42903B0" box="[199,380,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita aculeata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE28FF3FC76E03B0" author="Chevreux" box="[389,571,223,248]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Chevreux, Ed. (1911) Campagnes de la Melita: Les Amphipodes d'Algerie et de Tunisie. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 23, 145 - 285." type="journal article" year="1911">Chevreux, 1911</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FCAEFF3FC13003B0" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[771,1125,223,248]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now belongs to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF3AFEE4C47B0255" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[151,302,260,285]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF3AFEE4C47B0255" box="[151,302,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see above): 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE69FEE4C6440254" authority="Chevreux, 1911" authorityName="Chevreux" authorityYear="1911" box="[452,785,260,285]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aculeate">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE69FEE4C7170255" box="[452,578,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">A. aculeate</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FDFDFEE4C65D0254" author="Chevreux" box="[592,776,260,285]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Chevreux, Ed. (1911) Campagnes de la Melita: Les Amphipodes d'Algerie et de Tunisie. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 23, 145 - 285." type="journal article" year="1911">Chevreux, 1911</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFEC7C16F022D" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFEC7C7EA0208" ID-CoL="7X89F" authority="Sawicki &amp; Holsinger, 2005" authorityName="Sawicki &amp; Holsinger" authorityYear="2005" box="[199,703,295,320]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="almagosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFEC7C4D00208" box="[199,389,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita almagosa</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE21FEC7C7EA0208" author="Sawicki" box="[396,703,295,320]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Sawicki, T. R., Holsinger, J. R. &amp; Iliffe, T. M. (2005) New species of amphipod crustaceans in the genera Tegano and Melita (Hadzioidea: Melitidae) from subterranean groundwaters in Guam, Palau, and the Philippines. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 25 (1), 49 - 74. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1651 / C- 2525" type="journal article" year="2005">Sawicki &amp; Holsinger, 2005</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
by a set of attributes of generic level is classified in this work to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FEA5FEACC4E4022D" ID-CoL="7PS3K" box="[264,433,332,357]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Paraniphargus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FEA5FEACC4E4022D" box="[264,433,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FDF2FEADC163022D" ID-CoL="7X89F" authority="Sawicki &amp; Holsinger, 2005" authorityName="Sawicki &amp; Holsinger" authorityYear="2005" box="[607,1078,332,357]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="almagosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FDF2FEADC7BD022D" box="[607,744,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. almagosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD5BFEACC17B022D" author="Sawicki" box="[758,1070,332,357]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Sawicki, T. R., Holsinger, J. R. &amp; Iliffe, T. M. (2005) New species of amphipod crustaceans in the genera Tegano and Melita (Hadzioidea: Melitidae) from subterranean groundwaters in Guam, Palau, and the Philippines. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 25 (1), 49 - 74. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1651 / C- 2525" type="journal article" year="2005">Sawicki &amp; Holsinger, 2005</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFE8FC7A302E4" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFE8FC74902C0" ID-CoL="3ZJZN" authority="Hansen, 1888" authorityName="Hansen" authorityYear="1888" box="[199,540,367,392]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="amoena">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFE8FC42102C0" box="[199,372,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita amoena</emphasis>
Hansen, 1888
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD48FE8FC11202C0" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[741,1095,367,392]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
is now belongs to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF3AFE74C47B02E5" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[151,302,404,429]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF3AFE74C47B02E5" box="[151,302,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see above): 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE69FE74C7A702E4" ID-CoL="3ZJZN" authority="Hansen, 1888" authorityName="Hansen" authorityYear="1888" box="[452,754,404,428]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="amoena">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE69FE74C76902E4" box="[452,572,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">A. amoena</emphasis>
(Hansen, 1888)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFE57C6DE02BD" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFE57C70B0298" ID-CoL="3ZJZR" authority="Tattersall, 1925" authorityName="Tattersall" authorityYear="1925" box="[199,606,439,464]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="annandalei">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFE57C4C00298" box="[199,405,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita annandalei</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE08FE57C7030298" author="Tattersall" box="[421,598,439,464]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Tattersall, W. M. (1925) Freshwater Amphipoda from the Andaman Isles. Records of the Indian Museum, 27, 241 - 247." type="journal article" year="1925">Tattersall, 1925</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
by a set of characteristics of generic level in this work is classified to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF72FE3CC4DD02BD" ID-CoL="7PS3K" box="[223,392,476,501]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Paraniphargus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF72FE3CC4DD02BD" box="[223,392,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FD9BFE3DC6D202BD" ID-CoL="3ZJZR" authority="Tattersall, 1925" authorityName="Tattersall" authorityYear="1925" box="[566,903,476,501]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="annandalei">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FD9BFE3DC79A02BD" box="[566,719,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. annandalei</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD7BFE3CC6D202BD" author="Tattersall" box="[726,903,476,501]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Tattersall, W. M. (1925) Freshwater Amphipoda from the Andaman Isles. Records of the Indian Museum, 27, 241 - 247." type="journal article" year="1925">Tattersall, 1925</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFE1FC64301E0" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
The reduced accessory flagellum of antenna 1, a weak 3-articulated and weakly setose palp of mandible, the inner lobe of maxilla 1 is &quot; 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE7CFDC4C74F0175" ID-CoL="7PGFV" box="[465,538,548,573]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE7CFDC4C74F0175" box="[465,538,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
&quot; 
<typeStatus id="CE498862FFD4FF86FD82FDC5C7370175" box="[559,610,549,573]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">type</typeStatus>
, the lacking of facial rows of setae on the inner blade of maxilla 2, the lacking of the distinct posterior wing on the basis of pereopod 7 and the hooked anterior lobe of coxa 6 of female (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FF0DFD8CC42801CC" author="Barnard" box="[160,381,620,645]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1972 a) The marine fauna of New Zealand: algae-living littoral Gammaridea (Crustacea, Amphipoda). New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin, 1 - 216. [New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir, 62]." type="book chapter" year="1972" yearSuffix="a">J.L. Barnard 1972a</bibRefCitation>
), are characteristics that indicate a belonging of 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FC07FD8CC05201CC" ID-CoL="7X89G" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1972" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1972" box="[938,1287,620,645]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="awa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FC07FD8CC17E01CC" box="[938,1067,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita awa</emphasis>
J.L. Barnard, 1972
</taxonomicName>
to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF3AFD6FC4E001E0" ID-CoL="7PLXG" authority="Ruffo, 1985" authorityName="Ruffo" authorityYear="1985" box="[151,437,655,680]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Josephosella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF3AFD6FC47D01E0" box="[151,296,655,680]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Josephosella</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE83FD6FC4E001E0" author="Ruffo" box="[302,437,655,680]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Ruffo, S. (1985) Nuovi anfipodi mesopsammici delle isole Andamane (Crust. Amphipoda). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Verona, 10, 485 - 509." type="journal article" year="1985">Ruffo, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE76FD71C64701E0" ID-CoL="7X89G" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1972" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1972" box="[475,786,655,680]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="awa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE76FD71C77101E0" box="[475,548,657,680]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">J. awa</emphasis>
(J.L. Barnard, 1972)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFD54C5B501B8" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFD54C76E0184" ID-CoL="3ZJZX" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" box="[199,571,692,717]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="breviarticulata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFD54C4EA0185" box="[199,447,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita breviarticulata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE6AFD55C76E0184" author="Ren" box="[455,571,692,716]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren, 2012</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
is include in the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FCE5FD54C68A0185" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[840,991,692,717]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FCE5FD54C68A0185" box="[840,991,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see above) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FB3DFD54C58901B8" ID-CoL="3ZJZX" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="breviarticulata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FB3DFD54C0020185" box="[1168,1367,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">A. breviarticulata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FACBFD54C58101B8" author="Ren" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren, 2012</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFD1BC4A3007F" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFD1BC732005B" ID-CoL="7X89H" authority="Stock &amp; Vonk, 1992" authorityName="Stock &amp; Vonk" authorityYear="1992" box="[199,615,763,788]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cognata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFD1BC426005B" box="[199,371,763,788]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita cognata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FED1FD1BC732005B" author="Stock" box="[380,615,763,788]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Stock, J. H. &amp; Vonk, R. (1992) The first freshwater amphipod (Crustacea) from the Cape Verde Islands: Melita cognata n. sp., with notes on its evolutionary scenario. Journal of African Zoology, 106, 273 - 280." type="journal article" year="1992">
Stock &amp; Vonk, 
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</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
in this work is classified to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FB85FD1BC184005C" ID-CoL="7PS3K" box="[1064,1233,763,788]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Paraniphargus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FB85FD1BC184005C" box="[1064,1233,763,788]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FA2AFD1CC4A7007F" ID-CoL="7X89H" authority="Stock &amp; Vonk, 1992" authorityName="Stock &amp; Vonk" authorityYear="1992" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cognata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FA2AFD1CC5A4007E" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. cognata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FEADFCFEC4BF007F" author="Stock" box="[256,490,798,823]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Stock, J. H. &amp; Vonk, R. (1992) The first freshwater amphipod (Crustacea) from the Cape Verde Islands: Melita cognata n. sp., with notes on its evolutionary scenario. Journal of African Zoology, 106, 273 - 280." type="journal article" year="1992">Stock &amp; Vonk, 1992</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFCA1C0750036" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFCA1C7420012" ID-CoL="7VT7D" authority="Kroyer, 1842" authorityName="Kroyer" authorityYear="1842" box="[199,535,833,858]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dentata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFCA1C43F0012" box="[199,362,833,858]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita dentata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FED5FCA2C75B0012" author="Kroyer" box="[376,526,834,858]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Kroyer, H. (1842) Une nordiske Slaegter og Arter af Amfipodernes Orden, henhorende til Familien Gammarina. (Forelobigt Uddrag af Storre Arbejde). Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, 4, 141 - 166." type="journal article" year="1842">Krøyer, 1842</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
is listed by 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD31FCA1C6A40012" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[668,1009,833,858]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
and by Lowry (2015a) is a member of the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FEA5FC86C4DA0035" ID-CoL="7PFY3" box="[264,399,870,893]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Megamoera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FEA5FC86C4DA0035" box="[264,399,870,893]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Megamoera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE18FC86C7890036" ID-CoL="7VT7D" authority="Kroyer, 1842" authorityName="Kroyer" authorityYear="1842" box="[437,732,869,894]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dentata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE18FC86C77B0036" box="[437,558,869,894]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">M. dentata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD90FC86C7800036" author="Kroyer" box="[573,725,870,894]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Kroyer, H. (1842) Une nordiske Slaegter og Arter af Amfipodernes Orden, henhorende til Familien Gammarina. (Forelobigt Uddrag af Storre Arbejde). Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, 4, 141 - 166." type="journal article" year="1842">Krøyer, 1842</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD46FC86C6370036" author="Bate" box="[747,866,869,894]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Bate, C. S. (1862) Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis], London, 399 pp." type="book" year="1862">Bate 1862</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FCC0FC86C12B0036" author="Jarret" box="[877,1150,869,894]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FB27FC85C0410036" author="Labay" box="[1162,1300,869,894]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Labay, V. S. (2013) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Genera Megamoera Bate, 1862 and Armatomelita gen. nov. Zootaxa, 3700 (1), 65 - 112." type="journal article" year="2013">Labay 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFC68C6EF008D" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFC68C76900E9" ID-CoL="7ZKNK" authority="Nagata, 1965" authorityName="Nagata" authorityYear="1965" box="[199,572,904,929]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="denticulata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFC68C4CC00E9" box="[199,409,904,929]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita denticulata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE0EFC69C76900E9" author="Nagata" box="[419,572,904,929]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FCA9FC68C13300E9" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[772,1126,904,929]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now belongs to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF3AFC4CC47B008D" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[151,302,940,965]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF3AFC4CC47B008D" box="[151,302,940,965]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see above): 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE69FC4DC6E3008D" ID-CoL="7ZKNK" authority="(Nagata, 1965) (Lowry 2015)" authorityName="(Nagata, 1965) (Lowry" authorityYear="2015" box="[452,950,940,965]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="denticulata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE69FC4DC734008D" box="[452,609,940,965]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">A. denticulata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FDC2FC4DC652008D" author="Nagata" box="[623,775,940,965]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
) (Lowry 2015)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFC2FC5B90767" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFC2FC73B00A0" ID-CoL="72Y4W" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1962" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1962" box="[199,622,975,1000]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="desdichada">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFC2FC4C200A0" box="[199,407,975,1000]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita desdichada</emphasis>
J.L. Barnard, 1962
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FC8EFC2FC12C00A0" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[803,1145,975,1000]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now belongs to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF3AFC13C70F0744" ID-CoL="7NVVW" authority="Jarrett &amp; Bousfield, 1996" authorityName="Jarrett &amp; Bousfield" authorityYear="1996" box="[151,602,1011,1036]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Desdimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF3AFC13C44B0744" box="[151,286,1011,1036]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Desdimelita</emphasis>
Jarrett &amp; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE33FC13C70F0744" author="Bousfield" box="[414,602,1011,1036]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Bousfield, 1996</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
: 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FDC7FC14C15E0744" ID-CoL="72Y4W" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1962" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1962" box="[618,1035,1011,1036]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="desdichada">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FDC7FC14C6450744" box="[618,784,1011,1036]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">D. desdichada</emphasis>
(J.L. Barnard, 1962)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FBB3FC13C0150744" author="Jarret" box="[1054,1344,1011,1036]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; Lowry 2015c).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFBDAC6EB073E" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFBDAC73C071A" ID-CoL="7X89J" authority="Stock &amp; Vonk, 1990" authorityName="Stock &amp; Vonk" authorityYear="1990" box="[199,617,1082,1107]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dulcicola">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFBDAC42A071B" box="[199,383,1082,1107]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita dulcicola</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE2BFBDAC73C071A" author="Stock" box="[390,617,1082,1107]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Stock, J. H. &amp; Vonk, R. (1990) Stygofauna of the Canary Islands, 23. A freshwater amphipod from La Gomera, Melita dulcicola n. sp. Annals Limnology, 26 (1), 29 - 37. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1051 / limn / 1990003" type="journal article" year="1990">Stock &amp; Vonk, 1990</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
by a set of characteristics of generic level in this work is classified to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF72FBBDC4DD073E" ID-CoL="7PS3K" box="[223,392,1117,1142]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Paraniphargus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF72FBBDC4DD073E" box="[223,392,1117,1142]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FD9BFBBFC6EF073E" ID-CoL="7X89J" authority="Stock &amp; Vonk, 1990" authorityName="Stock &amp; Vonk" authorityYear="1990" box="[566,954,1117,1142]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dulcicola">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FD9BFBBFC7EC073E" box="[566,697,1117,1142]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. dulcicola</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD65FBBDC6E4073E" author="Stock" box="[712,945,1117,1142]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Stock, J. H. &amp; Vonk, R. (1990) Stygofauna of the Canary Islands, 23. A freshwater amphipod from La Gomera, Melita dulcicola n. sp. Annals Limnology, 26 (1), 29 - 37. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1051 / limn / 1990003" type="journal article" year="1990">Stock &amp; Vonk, 1990</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFB61C66D07F5" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFB61C77607D1" ID-CoL="72Y58" authority="Ledoyer, 1979" authorityName="Ledoyer" authorityYear="1979" box="[199,547,1153,1178]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="excavata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFB61C42E07D1" box="[199,379,1153,1178]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita excavata</emphasis>
Ledoyer, 1979
</taxonomicName>
by a set of characteristics of generic level in this work is classified to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF3AFB45C41007F6" ID-CoL="7PMJ6" box="[151,325,1189,1214]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Ledoyeromelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF3AFB45C41007F6" box="[151,325,1189,1214]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Ledoyeromelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE59FB46C66607F5" ID-CoL="72Y58" authority="Ledoyer, 1979" authorityName="Ledoyer" authorityYear="1979" box="[500,819,1189,1214]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="excavata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE59FB46C72007F5" box="[500,629,1190,1213]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">L. excavata</emphasis>
(Ledoyer, 1979)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFD4FF86FF6AFB29C41E0660" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" type="description">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFB29C41E0660" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
Description of 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FEDBFB29C7EE07AA" authority="Chilton, 1885" authorityName="Chilton" authorityYear="1885" box="[374,699,1225,1250]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="festiva">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FEDBFB29C74607A9" box="[374,531,1225,1250]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita festiva</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FDB0FB29C7EE07AA" author="Chilton" box="[541,699,1225,1250]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Chilton, C. (1885) Notes on a few Australian Edriophthalmata. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 9, 1035 - 1044." type="journal article" year="1885">Chilton, 1885</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
is not complete, but some of characteristics of this species are similar to 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FEA4FB0CC73C064D" authority="Ledoyer, 1979" authorityName="Ledoyer" authorityYear="1979" box="[265,617,1260,1285]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="excavata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FEA4FB0CC4E8064D" box="[265,445,1260,1285]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita excavata</emphasis>
Ledoyer, 1979
</taxonomicName>
. Therefore, I also attribute it to a new genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FBCDFB0CC05A064D" box="[1120,1295,1260,1285]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Ledoyeromelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FBCDFB0CC05A064D" box="[1120,1295,1260,1285]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Ledoyeromelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FA98FB0EC4130660" authority="Chilton, 1885" authorityName="Chilton" authorityYear="1885" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="festiva">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FA98FB0EC011064D" box="[1333,1348,1262,1285]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">L</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FAFEFB0DC0C9064D" box="[1363,1436,1261,1285]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">festiva</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FF33FAEFC46B0660" author="Chilton" box="[158,318,1295,1320]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Chilton, C. (1885) Notes on a few Australian Edriophthalmata. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 9, 1035 - 1044." type="journal article" year="1885">Chilton, 1885</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFD4FF86FF6AFAD3C6310451" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFAD3C18E0627" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFAD3C7720604" ID-CoL="3ZK2G" authority="Murdoch, 1866" authorityName="Murdoch" authorityYear="1866" box="[199,551,1331,1356]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="formosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFAD3C4260604" box="[199,371,1331,1356]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita formosa</emphasis>
Murdoch, 1866
</taxonomicName>
is listed by 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD1DFAD3C15D0604" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[688,1032,1331,1356]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
and by Lowry (2015a) is a member of the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE8AFAB6C4E50627" ID-CoL="7PX8L" box="[295,432,1366,1391]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE8AFAB6C4E50627" box="[295,432,1366,1391]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Quasimelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE78FAB7C64C0627" ID-CoL="3ZK2G" authority="Murdoch, 1866" authorityName="Murdoch" authorityYear="1866" box="[469,793,1366,1391]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="formosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE78FAB7C7060627" box="[469,595,1367,1391]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Q. formosa</emphasis>
(Murdoch, 1866)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FC8AFAB7C16F0627" author="Jarret" box="[807,1082,1366,1391]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FBEBFAB6C1850627" author="Labay" box="[1094,1232,1366,1391]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Labay, V. S. (2014) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934. Zootaxa, 3689 (3), 237 - 280. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3869.3.3" type="journal article" year="2014">Labay 2014</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFA9AC06406FE" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFA9AC7CF06DB" ID-CoL="7X89L" authority="Ren et Andreas, 2012" authorityName="Ren et Andreas" authorityYear="2012" box="[199,666,1402,1427]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hainanensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFA9AC4CB06DB" box="[199,414,1402,1427]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita hainanensis</emphasis>
Ren et Andreas, 2012
</taxonomicName>
has a set of features peculiar to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FBD1FA9AC0C906DB" ID-CoL="7PLXG" authority="Ruffo, 1985" authorityName="Ruffo" authorityYear="1985" box="[1148,1436,1402,1427]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Josephosella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FBD1FA9AC05806DB" box="[1148,1293,1402,1427]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Josephosella</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FAB9FA9AC0C906DB" author="Ruffo" box="[1300,1436,1402,1427]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Ruffo, S. (1985) Nuovi anfipodi mesopsammici delle isole Andamane (Crust. Amphipoda). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Verona, 10, 485 - 509." type="journal article" year="1985">Ruffo, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(see above), so I transfer this species in the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FD6AFA7DC60D06FE" ID-CoL="7PLXG" box="[711,856,1437,1462]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Josephosella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FD6AFA7DC60D06FE" box="[711,856,1437,1462]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Josephosella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FCD0FA7FC07806FE" ID-CoL="7X89L" authority="Ren et Andreas, 2012" authorityName="Ren et Andreas" authorityYear="2012" box="[893,1325,1437,1462]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hainanensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FCD0FA7FC6DC06FE" box="[893,905,1439,1462]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">J</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FC35FA7DC14B06FE" box="[920,1054,1437,1462]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">hainanensis</emphasis>
(Ren et Andreas, 2012)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AFA21C5B506B5" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AFA21C71E0692" ID-CoL="3ZK2S" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" box="[199,587,1473,1498]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="huanghaiensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AFA21C4EE0692" box="[199,443,1473,1498]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita huanghaiensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE69FA22C71E0692" author="Ren" box="[452,587,1473,1498]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012" yearSuffix="i">Ren, 2012 i</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
include in the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FCE8FA21C6890692" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[837,988,1473,1498]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FCE8FA21C6890692" box="[837,988,1473,1498]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see above) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FB3FFA22C58906B5" ID-CoL="3ZK2S" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="huanghaiensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FB3FFA22C0030692" box="[1170,1366,1473,1498]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">A. huanghaiensis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FACBFA22C58106B5" author="Ren" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren, 2012</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AF9E8C629050C" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AF9E8C74E0569" ID-CoL="7ZKNM" authority="Nagata, 1965" authorityName="Nagata" authorityYear="1965" box="[199,539,1544,1569]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="japonica">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AF9E8C42E0568" box="[199,379,1544,1569]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita japonica</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE29F9E9C74E0569" author="Nagata" box="[388,539,1544,1569]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FD76F9E8C16D0569" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[731,1080,1544,1569]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FAA8F9E8C4FD050C" ID-CoL="63ZRF" authority="Nagata, 1965" authorityName="Nagata" authorityYear="1965" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="japonica">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FAA8F9E8C5AC050C" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Abludomelita japonica</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FEAAF9CCC4CA050C" author="Nagata" box="[263,415,1579,1604]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE1BF9CCC79F050C" author="Jarret" box="[438,714,1579,1604]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; Lowry 2015a).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AF9AFC69205C3" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AF9AFC7210520" ID-CoL="7ZKNN" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1964" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1964" box="[199,628,1615,1640]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kodiakensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AF9AFC4CF0520" box="[199,410,1615,1640]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita kodiakensis</emphasis>
J.L. Barnard, 1964
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FC81F9AFC1D00520" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[812,1157,1615,1640]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FAB9F9B0C75105C3" ID-CoL="3YWCX" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1964" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1964" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Megamoera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kodiakensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FAB9F9B0C44F05C3" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Megamoera kodiakensis</emphasis>
(J.L. Barnard, 1964)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FDBEF993C67305C3" author="Jarret" box="[531,806,1650,1675]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FC9CF992C6EE05C3" author="Labay" box="[817,955,1650,1675]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Labay, V. S. (2013) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Genera Megamoera Bate, 1862 and Armatomelita gen. nov. Zootaxa, 3700 (1), 65 - 112." type="journal article" year="2013">Labay 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AF976C6310451" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<materialsCitation id="A19A3C9DFFD4FF86FF6AF976C6310451" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1300093458" collectorName="Therefore, I" country="South Korea" location="Korea" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" specimenCount="1">
Stephensen (1944) described from coastal waters of 
<collectingCountry id="69E57650FFD4FF86FCB7F977C60B05E6" box="[794,862,1687,1710]" name="South Korea" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Korea</collectingCountry>
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FCCAF976C04105E7" ID-CoL="3ZK2X" authority="Stephensen, 1944" authorityName="Stephensen" authorityYear="1944" box="[871,1300,1686,1711]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laevidorsum">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FCCAF976C11705E7" box="[871,1090,1686,1711]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita laevidorsum</emphasis>
Stephensen, 1944
</taxonomicName>
. Lacking of descriptions of mouthparts and atypical structure of basis of pereopods 5–7 it can not be accurately attributed this species to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FE21F93DC48005BE" ID-CoL="7PGFV" box="[396,469,1757,1782]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FE21F93DC48005BE" box="[396,469,1757,1782]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Female is not known. 
<collectorName id="BC075316FFD4FF86FD40F93DC62305BD" box="[749,886,1757,1782]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Therefore, I</collectorName>
leave this species with great care in the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF3AF8E0C5B50451" ID-CoL="7PGFV" box="[151,224,1792,1817]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF3AF8E0C5B50451" box="[151,224,1792,1817]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, at the base of structure of pereopods 1 &amp; 2 of male only.
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFD4FF86FF6AF8C4C7730428" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" type="description">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AF8C4C7730428" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AF8C4C7DC0474" authority="Ren &amp; Andress, 2008" authorityName="Ren &amp; Andress" authorityYear="2008" box="[199,649,1828,1853]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="latiflagella">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AF8C4C4C40475" box="[199,401,1828,1853]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita latiflagella</emphasis>
Ren &amp; Andress, 
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</taxonomicName>
in this work is classified to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FB9FF8C4C18E0475" box="[1074,1243,1828,1853]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Paraniphargus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FB9FF8C4C18E0475" box="[1074,1243,1828,1853]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FA2AF8C5C7740428" authority="Ren &amp; Andress, 2008" authorityName="Ren &amp; Andress" authorityYear="2008" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="latiflagella">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FA2AF8C5C4470428" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. latiflagella</emphasis>
(Ren &amp; Andress, 2008)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFD4FF87FF6AF88BC11D04DD" lastPageId="49" lastPageNumber="50" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD4FF86FF6AF88BC46404A7" blockId="48.[151,1436,151,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FF6AF88BC75B04CB" ID-CoL="7X89N" authority="Vonk, 1989" authorityName="Vonk" authorityYear="1989" box="[199,526,1899,1924]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leiotelson">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FF6AF88BC4D004CC" box="[199,389,1899,1924]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Melita leiotelson</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FE21F88BC75B04CB" author="Vonk" box="[396,526,1899,1924]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Vonk, R. (1989) Nuuanu curvata n. sp. and Melita leiotelson n. sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from beach interstitia on Curacao. Foundation for Scientific Research in Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles, Amsterdam, 123, 185 - 198." type="journal article" year="1989">Vonk, 1989</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
has a set of features of the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FC3DF88CC6B704CB" ID-CoL="7Q3TW" box="[912,994,1900,1923]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Tegano" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FC3DF88CC6B704CB" box="[912,994,1900,1923]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Tegano</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(mandibular palp reduced, weak, setae of palp segment 3 very weak; dactylus of pereopod 1 of male regular; merus of pereopod 5 normal, linear; basis of pereopods 6 &amp; 7 is not broadened, coxa 6 of female without “hooked” lobe) and I rename it to 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD4FF86FB78F854C47804A7" ID-CoL="7ZL79" authority="Vonk, 1989" authorityName="Vonk" authorityYear="1989" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Tegano" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leiotelson">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD4FF86FB78F854C0C90484" box="[1237,1436,1971,1996]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Tegano leiotelson</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD4FF86FF33F836C47004A7" author="Vonk" box="[158,293,2006,2031]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" refString="Vonk, R. (1989) Nuuanu curvata n. sp. and Melita leiotelson n. sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from beach interstitia on Curacao. Foundation for Scientific Research in Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles, Amsterdam, 123, 185 - 198." type="journal article" year="1989">Vonk, 1989</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFF77C6D2039C" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFF77C71403F8" ID-CoL="7X89P" authority="Barnard, 1961" authorityName="Barnard" authorityYear="1961" box="[199,577,151,176]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lignophila">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFF77C4DA03F8" box="[199,399,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita lignophila</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE36FF77C71403F8" author="Barnard" box="[411,577,151,176]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1961) Gammaridean Amphipoda: from depths of 400 to 6000 meters. Galathea Report, 5, 23 - 128." type="journal article" year="1961">Barnard, 1961</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FCBDFF77C12203F8" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[784,1143,151,176]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FAB9FF79C491039D" ID-CoL="3YWCY" authority="Barnard, 1961" authorityName="Barnard" authorityYear="1961" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Megamoera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lignophila">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FAB9FF79C45F039D" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Megamoera lignophila</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FEB4FF5CC4E9039D" author="Barnard" box="[281,444,188,213]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1961) Gammaridean Amphipoda: from depths of 400 to 6000 meters. Galathea Report, 5, 23 - 128." type="journal article" year="1961">Barnard, 1961</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE7FFF5CC7B0039D" author="Jarret" box="[466,741,188,213]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD5CFF5CC62E039C" author="Labay" box="[753,891,188,213]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Labay, V. S. (2013) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Genera Megamoera Bate, 1862 and Armatomelita gen. nov. Zootaxa, 3700 (1), 65 - 112." type="journal article" year="2013">Labay 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFF3FC6E70255" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFF3FC72C03B0" ID-CoL="7X89Q" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1955" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1955" box="[199,633,223,248]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="machaera">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFF3FC4DF03B0" box="[199,394,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita machaera</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE39FF00C72C03B0" author="Barnard" box="[404,633,223,248]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1955). Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum, 43, 1 - 107." type="journal article" year="1955">K.H. Barnard, 1955</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FC93FF3FC1CA03B0" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[830,1183,223,248]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
and Lowry (2015a) I accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FEB3FEE4C6760255" ID-CoL="7Q8KF" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1955" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1955" box="[286,803,260,285]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="machaera">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FEB3FEE4C7790255" box="[286,556,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Abludomelita machaera</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD91FEE4C64E0255" author="Barnard" box="[572,795,260,285]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1955). Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum, 43, 1 - 107." type="journal article" year="1955">K.H. Barnard, 1955</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(see above).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFEC7C6F3022C" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFEC7C7190208" ID-CoL="3ZK39" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1972" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1972" box="[199,588,295,320]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="matilda">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFEC7C43A0208" box="[199,367,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita matilda</emphasis>
J.L. Barnard, 1972
</taxonomicName>
by a set of characteristics of generic level in this work is classified to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF72FEACC4C4022D" ID-CoL="7NSJZ" box="[223,401,332,357]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Barnardomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF72FEACC4C4022D" box="[223,401,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Barnardomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FD92FEADC6F4022C" ID-CoL="3ZK39" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1972" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1972" box="[575,929,332,357]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="matilda">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FD92FEADC7E1022D" box="[575,692,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">B. matilda</emphasis>
(J.L. Barnard, 1972)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFE8FC65802E5" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFE8FC76F02C0" ID-CoL="3ZK3D" authority="Griffiths, 1975" authorityName="Griffiths" authorityYear="1975" box="[199,570,367,392]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mucronata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFE8FC4DB02C0" box="[199,398,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita mucronata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE38FE8FC76F02C0" author="Griffiths" box="[405,570,367,392]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Griffiths, C. L. (1975) The amphipoda of southern Africa part 5. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of the Cape Province west of Cape Agulhas. Annals of the South African Museum, 67, 91 - 181." type="journal article" year="1975">Griffiths, 1975</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD41FE8FC11702C0" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[748,1090,367,392]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FAA8FE8FC49A02E5" ID-CoL="63ZRG" authority="Griffiths, 1975" authorityName="Griffiths" authorityYear="1975" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mucronata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FAA8FE8FC45A02E4" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Abludomelita mucronata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FEB3FE74C49302E5" author="Griffiths" box="[286,454,404,429]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Griffiths, C. L. (1975) The amphipoda of southern Africa part 5. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of the Cape Province west of Cape Agulhas. Annals of the South African Museum, 67, 91 - 181." type="journal article" year="1975">Griffiths, 1975</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(see above) (Lowry 2015a).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFE57C41D02BC" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFE57C74C0298" ID-CoL="7X89R" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1972" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1972" box="[199,537,439,464]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oba">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFE57C4140298" box="[199,321,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita oba</emphasis>
J.L. Barnard, 
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</taxonomicName>
in this work is classified to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FC68FE57C13B0298" ID-CoL="7PS3K" box="[965,1134,439,464]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Paraniphargus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FC68FE57C13B0298" box="[965,1134,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FAB1FE59C41602BC" ID-CoL="7X89R" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1972" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1972" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oba">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FAB1FE59C0370298" box="[1308,1378,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">P. oba</emphasis>
(J.L. Barnard, 1972)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFE1FC1420175" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFE1FC76F0150" ID-CoL="3ZK3L" authority="Montagu, 1813" authorityName="Montagu" authorityYear="1813" box="[199,570,511,536]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obtusata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFE1FC4230150" box="[199,374,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita obtusata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE28FDE0C7670150" author="Montagu" box="[389,562,512,536]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Montagu, G. (1813) Description of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of The Linnean Society of London, 11, 1 - 26. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1813. tb 00035. x" type="journal article" year="1813">Montagu, 1813</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD40FE1FC1170150" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[749,1090,511,536]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FAA8FE1FC4E90174" ID-CoL="63ZRJ" authority="Montagu, 1813" authorityName="Montagu" authorityYear="1813" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obtusata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FAA8FE1FC5AD0175" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Abludomelita obtusata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FEABFDC4C4E10174" author="Montagu" box="[262,436,548,572]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Montagu, G. (1813) Description of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of The Linnean Society of London, 11, 1 - 26. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1813. tb 00035. x" type="journal article" year="1813">Montagu, 1813</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(see above) (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FDFFFDC4C6300175" author="Jarret" box="[594,869,548,573]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; Lowry 2015a).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFDA7C03B0184" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFDA7C78D0128" ID-CoL="3ZK3M" authority="Lowry &amp; Springthorpe, 2005" authorityName="Lowry &amp; Springthorpe" authorityYear="2005" box="[199,728,583,608]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ophiocola">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFDA7C4DD0128" box="[199,392,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita ophiocola</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE22FDA8C78D0128" author="Lowry" box="[399,728,583,608]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Lowry, J. K. &amp; Springthorpe, R. T. (2005) New and little-known melitid amphipods from Australian waters (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 57, 237 - 302. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.57.2005.1463" type="journal article" year="2005">Lowry &amp; Springthorpe, 2005</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
on the phenogram of similarity (
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) included in the cluster &quot; 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF0FFD8CC41F01CD" box="[162,330,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.&quot; With the genus 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FD87FD8CC78601CD" box="[554,723,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
this species is bring a shortened mandible palp and poorly developed anterior lobe of coxa 
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female. The set of other generic features (the structure of mouthparts, pereopods and telson) is characteristic for the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FD4EFD54C6790185" ID-CoL="7PGFV" box="[739,812,692,717]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FD4EFD54C6790185" box="[739,812,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Therefore, I leave this species in the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FAB3FD54C0320185" ID-CoL="7PGFV" box="[1310,1383,692,717]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FAB3FD54C0320185" box="[1310,1383,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFD37C649005C" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFD37C74A01B8" ID-CoL="7X89S" authority="G.O. Sars, 1879" authorityName="G.O. Sars" authorityYear="1879" box="[199,543,727,752]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFD37C43301B8" box="[199,358,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita pallida</emphasis>
G.O. Sars, 1879
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
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accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FB13FD39C40F005C" ID-CoL="3YWD4" authority="G.O. Sars, 1879" authorityName="G.O. Sars" authorityYear="1879" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Megamoera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FB13FD39C0C901B8" box="[1214,1436,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Megamoera pallida</emphasis>
(G.O. Sars, 1879)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FEC5FD1CC72E005D" author="Jarret" box="[360,635,764,789]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD2AFD1CC644005C" author="Labay" box="[647,785,764,789]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Labay, V. S. (2013) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Genera Megamoera Bate, 1862 and Armatomelita gen. nov. Zootaxa, 3700 (1), 65 - 112." type="journal article" year="2013">Labay 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFCFFC77B0014" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFCFFC75B0070" ID-CoL="3ZK3T" authority="Sars, 1883" authorityName="Sars" authorityYear="1883" box="[199,526,799,824]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pellucida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFCFFC4D00070" box="[199,389,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita pellucida</emphasis>
Sars, 1883
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD4CFCFFC11F0070" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[737,1098,799,824]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FA8AFCFFC77F0014" authority="(Sars, 1883) (Stock 1984)" authorityName="(Sars, 1883) (Stock" authorityYear="1984" class="Malacostraca" family="Gammaridae" genus="Allomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pellucida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FA8AFCFFC5AA0015" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Allomelita pellucida</emphasis>
(Sars, 1883) (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE30FCA4C7740014" author="Stock" box="[413,545,836,861]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Stock, J. H. (1984) Observations morphologiques et ecologiques sur une population intertidale de Melita pellucida Sars (Amphipoda) a etretat (Seine-maritime, France). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 251, 93 - 106." type="journal article" year="1984">Stock 1984</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFC87C1DA00EC" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFC87C76000C8" ID-CoL="7X89T" authority="Zeidler, 1989" authorityName="Zeidler" authorityYear="1989" box="[199,565,871,896]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plumulosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFC87C4C500C8" box="[199,400,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita plumulosa</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE36FC87C76000C8" author="Zeidler" box="[411,565,871,896]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Zeidler, W. (1989) A new species of Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from northern New South Wales with a note on the genus Abludomelita Karaman, 1981. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 110, 327 - 338." type="journal article" year="1989">Zeidler, 1989</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
has a set of features peculiar to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FB91FC87C03600C8" ID-CoL="7PLXG" authority="Ruffo, 1985" authorityName="Ruffo" authorityYear="1985" box="[1084,1379,871,896]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Josephosella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FB91FC87C19800C8" box="[1084,1229,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Josephosella</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FB75FC87C03600C8" author="Ruffo" box="[1240,1379,871,896]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Ruffo, S. (1985) Nuovi anfipodi mesopsammici delle isole Andamane (Crust. Amphipoda). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Verona, 10, 485 - 509." type="journal article" year="1985">Ruffo, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(see above), so I transfer this species in the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FD3EFC6CC67100ED" ID-CoL="7PLXG" box="[659,804,908,933]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Josephosella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FD3EFC6CC67100ED" box="[659,804,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Josephosella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FCE4FC6DC1DE00EC" ID-CoL="7X89T" authority="Zeidler, 1989" authorityName="Zeidler" authorityYear="1989" box="[841,1163,908,933]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plumulosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FCE4FC6DC60000EC" box="[841,853,909,932]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">J</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FCC9FC6CC68C00ED" box="[868,985,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">plumulosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FC4AFC6CC1D700EC" author="Zeidler" box="[999,1154,908,933]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Zeidler, W. (1989) A new species of Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from northern New South Wales with a note on the genus Abludomelita Karaman, 1981. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 110, 327 - 338." type="journal article" year="1989">Zeidler, 1989</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFC4FC11200A4" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFC4FC72C0080" ID-CoL="3ZK3Z" authority="Vosseler, 1889" authorityName="Vosseler" authorityYear="1889" box="[199,633,943,968]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quadrispinosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFC4FC4EA0080" box="[199,447,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita quadrispinosa</emphasis>
Vosseler, 1889
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FCFBFC4FC1930080" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[854,1222,943,968]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF3AFC34C7D100A4" ID-CoL="4R275" authority="Vosseler, 1889" authorityName="Vosseler" authorityYear="1889" box="[151,644,980,1005]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quadrispinosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF3AFC34C49200A5" box="[151,455,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Quasimelita quadrispinosa</emphasis>
(Vosseler, 1889)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD3FFC34C6F000A5" author="Jarret" box="[658,933,980,1005]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FC1CFC34C16E00A4" author="Labay" box="[945,1083,980,1005]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Labay, V. S. (2014) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934. Zootaxa, 3689 (3), 237 - 280. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3869.3.3" type="journal article" year="2014">Labay 2014</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFC17C1450710" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFC17C4AD0758" ID-CoL="b848626a-106d-4721-8629-62d45df8b404" authority="Hamond, 1965" authorityName="Hamond" authorityYear="1965" box="[199,504,1015,1040]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="reidi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFC17C41E0758" box="[199,331,1015,1040]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita reidi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FEFFFC17C4AD0758" author="Hamond" box="[338,504,1015,1040]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Hamond, R. (1965) On some amphipods from the coast of Norfolk. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 45, 153 - 160. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315400004057" type="journal article" year="1965">Hamond, 1965</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
has been described only by females, so the structure of perepods 1 and 2 of male is unknown (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FEA3FBFCC4E6077D" author="Hamond" box="[270,435,1052,1077]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Hamond, R. (1965) On some amphipods from the coast of Norfolk. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 45, 153 - 160. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315400004057" type="journal article" year="1965">Hamond 1965</bibRefCitation>
). Coxa 6 of females is not described. This species is close to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FB78FBFDC072077C" ID-CoL="7Q3TW" box="[1237,1319,1053,1076]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Tegano" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FB78FBFDC072077C" box="[1237,1319,1053,1076]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Tegano</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
according to the structure of mouth parts and I rename it to 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FD11FBA1C1590710" ID-CoL="7ZL7B" authority="Hamond, 1965" authorityName="Hamond" authorityYear="1965" box="[700,1036,1087,1112]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Tegano" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="reidi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FD11FBA1C61C0710" box="[700,841,1087,1112]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Tegano reidi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FCFAFBDFC1560710" author="Hamond" box="[855,1027,1087,1112]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Hamond, R. (1965) On some amphipods from the coast of Norfolk. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 45, 153 - 160. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315400004057" type="journal article" year="1965">Hamond, 1965</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFB84C6C707E8" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFB84C7780734" ID-CoL="7X89V" authority="Chevreux, 1900" authorityName="Chevreux" authorityYear="1900" box="[199,557,1124,1149]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="richardi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFB84C4270735" box="[199,370,1124,1149]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita richardi</emphasis>
Chevreux, 1900
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD48FB84C16B0735" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[741,1086,1124,1149]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FAA8FB84C4EB07E8" ID-CoL="63ZRK" authority="Chevreux, 1900" authorityName="Chevreux" authorityYear="1900" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="richardi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FAA8FB84C5A707E8" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Abludomelita richardi</emphasis>
(Chevreux, 1900)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE61FB68C78A07E8" author="Jarret" box="[460,735,1159,1184]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; Lowry 2015a).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFB4CC0C9078C" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" box="[199,1436,1196,1221]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFB4CC778078D" ID-CoL="3ZK44" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" box="[199,557,1196,1221]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rotundactyla">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFB4CC4F0078D" box="[199,421,1196,1221]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita rotundactyla</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE06FB4DC778078D" author="Ren" box="[427,557,1196,1221]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012" yearSuffix="i">Ren, 2012 i</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
include in the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FCB7FB4CC6E4078D" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[794,945,1196,1221]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FCB7FB4CC6E4078D" box="[794,945,1196,1221]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see above) as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FBF1FB4CC0CD078C" ID-CoL="3ZK44" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" box="[1116,1432,1196,1221]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rotundactyla">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FBF1FB4CC05C078D" box="[1116,1289,1196,1221]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">A. rotundactyla</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FABAFB4CC0C4078C" author="Ren" box="[1303,1425,1196,1220]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren, 2012</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFB2FC44A0645" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFB2FC77107A0" ID-CoL="81b1a806-a499-414d-a3f8-f324be4585f3" authority="Gamo, 1977" authorityName="Gamo" authorityYear="1977" box="[199,548,1231,1256]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sexstachya">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFB2FC4C407A0" box="[199,401,1231,1256]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita sexstachya</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE35FB30C77107A0" author="Gamo" box="[408,548,1232,1256]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Gamo, S. (1977) A new gammaridean Amphipoda, Melita sexstachya sp. nov. from Sagami Bay. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 13, 65 - 71." type="journal article" year="1977">Gamo, 1977</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
is included to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FC90FB2FC69307A0" ID-CoL="7PX8L" box="[829,966,1231,1256]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FC90FB2FC69307A0" box="[829,966,1231,1256]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Quasimelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FC40FB2FC0C907A0" ID-CoL="4R277" authority="Gamo, 1977" authorityName="Gamo" authorityYear="1977" box="[1005,1436,1231,1256]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sexstachya">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FC40FB2FC1A307A0" box="[1005,1270,1231,1256]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Quasimelita sexstachya</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FAABFB30C0C107A0" author="Gamo" box="[1286,1428,1232,1256]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Gamo, S. (1977) A new gammaridean Amphipoda, Melita sexstachya sp. nov. from Sagami Bay. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 13, 65 - 71." type="journal article" year="1977">Gamo, 1977</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(see above).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFAF7C1E8061D" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFAF7C7160678" ID-CoL="3ZK4C" authority="Yamato, 1995" authorityName="Yamato" authorityYear="1995" box="[199,579,1303,1328]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="shiodamari">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFAF7C4CF0678" box="[199,410,1303,1328]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita shiodamari</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE0EFAF9C7160678" author="Yamato" box="[419,579,1303,1328]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Yamato, S. (1995) A New Species of the Genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from a High Tide Pool at Shirahama, on the West Coast of the Kii Peninsula, Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 36 (5 / 6), 379 - 388." type="journal article" year="1995">Yamato, 1995</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FCAAFAF7C13D0678" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[775,1128,1303,1328]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
is included into the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF3AFADDC5BC061C" ID-CoL="7Q3TW" box="[151,233,1341,1364]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Tegano" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF3AFADDC5BC061C" box="[151,233,1341,1364]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Tegano</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FEA0FADDC7CE061D" ID-CoL="55452" authority="Yamato, 1995" authorityName="Yamato" authorityYear="1995" box="[269,667,1340,1365]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Tegano" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="shiodamari">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FEA0FADDC4B0061D" box="[269,485,1340,1365]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Tegano shiodamari</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE59FADCC7C6061D" author="Yamato" box="[500,659,1340,1365]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Yamato, S. (1995) A New Species of the Genus Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from a High Tide Pool at Shirahama, on the West Coast of the Kii Peninsula, Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 36 (5 / 6), 379 - 388." type="journal article" year="1995">Yamato, 1995</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
after 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD71FADDC17A061C" author="Lowry" box="[732,1071,1340,1365]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Lowry, J. K. &amp; Springthorpe, R. T. (2009) Melitidae, the Melita group. In: Lowry, J. K. &amp; Myers, A. A. (Eds.), Amphipoda of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa, 2260, 718 - 735." type="journal article" year="2009">Lowry &amp; Springthorpe (2009)</bibRefCitation>
(see above).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFA81C15206D4" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFA81C71B0630" ID-CoL="3ZK4G" authority="Schellenberg, 1925" authorityName="Schellenberg" authorityYear="1925" box="[199,590,1375,1400]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subchelata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFA81C43D0630" box="[199,360,1375,1400]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">M. subchelata</emphasis>
Schellenberg, 1925
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FCB9FABFC1200630" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[788,1141,1375,1400]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FAEAFABFC75406D5" ID-CoL="5B3LD" authority="Schellenberg, 1925" authorityName="Schellenberg" authorityYear="1925" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Verdeia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subchelata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FAEAFABFC44506D5" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Verdeia subchelata</emphasis>
(Schellenberg, 1925)
</taxonomicName>
(Lowry 2015a; 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD1BFA65C6AE06D4" author="Lowry" box="[694,1019,1412,1437]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Lowry, J. K. &amp; Springthorpe, R. T. (2007) A revision of the tropical / temperate amphipod genus Dulichiella Stout, 1912, and the description of a new Atlantic genus Verdeia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae). Zootaxa, 1242, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="2007">Lowry &amp; Springthorpe 2007</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFA47C11E06AD" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFA47C7310688" ID-CoL="7ZKNT" authority="Hirayama, 1987" authorityName="Hirayama" authorityYear="1987" box="[199,612,1447,1472]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="unamoena">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFA47C4C30688" box="[199,406,1447,1472]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita unamoena</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE0BFA47C7310688" author="Hirayama" box="[422,612,1447,1472]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Hirayama, A. (1987) Taxonomic studies on the shallow water Gammaridean Amphipoda of west Kyushu, Japan 7. Melitidae (Melita), Melphidippidae etc. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 32, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="1987">Hirayama, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FCE6FA47C1950688" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[843,1216,1447,1472]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF3AFA2CC72206AC" ID-CoL="63ZRQ" authority="Hirayama, 1987" authorityName="Hirayama" authorityYear="1987" box="[151,631,1484,1509]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="unamoena">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF3AFA2CC4FF06AC" box="[151,426,1484,1509]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Abludomelita unamoena</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE15FA2CC73A06AC" author="Hirayama" box="[440,623,1484,1509]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Hirayama, A. (1987) Taxonomic studies on the shallow water Gammaridean Amphipoda of west Kyushu, Japan 7. Melitidae (Melita), Melphidippidae etc. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 32, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="1987">Hirayama, 1987</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD2BFA2CC6CC06AD" author="Jarret" box="[646,921,1484,1509]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
; Lowry 2015a).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AFA0FC4080565" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AFA0FC7410540" ID-CoL="7X89W" authority="Karaman, 1955" authorityName="Karaman" authorityYear="1955" box="[199,532,1519,1544]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="valesi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AFA0FC40E0540" box="[199,347,1519,1544]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita valesi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FEC8FA10C7410540" author="Karaman" box="[357,532,1519,1544]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Karaman, S. (1955) Uber einige Amphipoden des Grundwassers der Jugoslavischen Meereskuste. Acta Musei Macedonici scientiarum naturalium, 2 (11), 223 - 242." type="journal article" year="1955">
Karaman, 
<quantity id="D60A9B25FFD5FF87FE71FA0FC7410540" box="[476,532,1519,1544]" metricMagnitude="1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.9657" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" unit="in" value="1955.0">1955</quantity>
</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
in this work is classified to the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FC77FA0FC1D60540" ID-CoL="7PS3K" box="[986,1155,1519,1544]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Paraniphargus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FC77FA0FC1D60540" box="[986,1155,1519,1544]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Paraniphargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) as 
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FA91FA11C0CD0540" box="[1340,1432,1519,1544]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">P. v a l e s i</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FF33F9F4C4040565" author="Karaman" box="[158,337,1556,1581]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Karaman, S. (1955) Uber einige Amphipoden des Grundwassers der Jugoslavischen Meereskuste. Acta Musei Macedonici scientiarum naturalium, 2 (11), 223 - 242." type="journal article" year="1955">Karaman, 1955</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AF9D9C747053C" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AF9D9C4AB0518" ID-CoL="739TW" authority="Shoemaker, 1955" authorityName="Shoemaker" authorityYear="1955" box="[199,510,1591,1616]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melitoides" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="valida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AF9D9C4660518" box="[199,307,1591,1616]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">M. valida</emphasis>
Shoemaker, 1955
</taxonomicName>
from the list of 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD1AF9D7C1450518" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[695,1040,1591,1616]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T. &amp; Sket, B. (2015) Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 248 - 262. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3948.2.6" type="journal article" year="2015">Krapp-Schickel &amp; Sket (2015)</bibRefCitation>
now accepted as 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FB75F9D7C75B053C" ID-CoL="739TW" authority="(Shoemaker, 1955) (Labay 2014)" authorityName="(Shoemaker, 1955) (Labay" authorityYear="2014" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melitoides" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="valida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FB75F9D7C0C90518" box="[1240,1436,1591,1616]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melitoides valida</emphasis>
(Shoemaker, 1955) (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FED6F9BCC752053C" author="Labay" box="[379,519,1628,1653]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Labay, V. S. (2014) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934. Zootaxa, 3689 (3), 237 - 280. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3869.3.3" type="journal article" year="2014">Labay 2014</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AF99FC4E2044C" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AF99FC66905D0" authority="Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo &amp; Schiecke, 1994" authorityName="Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo &amp; Schiecke" authorityYear="1994" box="[199,828,1663,1688]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="virgule">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AF99FC43005D0" box="[199,357,1663,1688]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita virgule</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FEC0F99FC66905D0" author="Krapp-Schickel" box="[365,828,1663,1688]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T., Ruffo, S. &amp; Schiecke, U. (1994) New Amphipods (Crustacea) from the Eastern Mediterranean. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 232, 3 / 4, 137 - 149." type="journal article" year="1994">Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo &amp; Schiecke, 1994</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
has a set of features of the genus 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FB17F961C05905D0" ID-CoL="7Q3TW" box="[1210,1292,1665,1688]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Tegano" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FB17F961C05905D0" box="[1210,1292,1665,1688]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Tegano</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(mandibular palp reduced, weak, setae of palp segment 3 very weak; dactylus of pereopod 1 of male regular; merus of pereopod 5 normal, linear; basis of pereopods 6 &amp; 7 is not broadened) and I rename it to 
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FB86F929C4E6044C" authority="Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo &amp; Schiecke, 1994" authorityName="Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo &amp; Schiecke" authorityYear="1994" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Tegano" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="virgule">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FB86F929C18605A8" box="[1067,1235,1735,1760]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Tegano virgule</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FB4EF927C4FF044C" author="Krapp-Schickel" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Krapp-Schickel, T., Ruffo, S. &amp; Schiecke, U. (1994) New Amphipods (Crustacea) from the Eastern Mediterranean. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 232, 3 / 4, 137 - 149." type="journal article" year="1994">Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo &amp; Schiecke, 1994</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AF8EFC0CE0460" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" box="[199,1435,1807,1832]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FF6AF8EFC7310460" ID-CoL="7X89Y" authority="J.L. Barnard, 1979" authorityName="J.L. Barnard" authorityYear="1979" box="[199,612,1807,1832]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vulcanella">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FF6AF8EFC4D90460" box="[199,396,1807,1832]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita vulcanella</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FE3EF8F0C7310460" author="Barnard" box="[403,612,1807,1832]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1979) Littoral Gammaridean Amphipoda from the Gulf of California and the Galapagos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 271, 1 - 149. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.271" type="journal article" year="1979">J.L. Barnard, 1979</bibRefCitation>
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is accepted as 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FCA1F8EFC15C0460" box="[780,1033,1807,1832]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Anchialella vulcanella</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FBA2F8F0C1B50460" author="Barnard" box="[1039,1248,1807,1832]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1979) Littoral Gammaridean Amphipoda from the Gulf of California and the Galapagos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 271, 1 - 149. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.271" type="journal article" year="1979">J.L. Barnard, 1979</bibRefCitation>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FB42F8EFC0DB0460" author="Barnard" box="[1263,1422,1807,1832]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1979) Littoral Gammaridean Amphipoda from the Gulf of California and the Galapagos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 271, 1 - 149. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.271" type="journal article" year="1979">Barnard 1979</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF87FF6AF8D5C11D04DD" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FF6AF8D5C4100404" author="Ren" box="[199,325,1844,1868]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren (2012)</bibRefCitation>
found in the coastal waters of 
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<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FD4EF8D4C1D40404" ID-CoL="3ZK3P" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1940" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1940" box="[739,1153,1844,1869]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orgasmos">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FD4EF8D4C6CA0404" box="[739,927,1844,1869]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita orgasmos</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FC08F8D5C1D40404" author="Barnard" box="[933,1153,1844,1869]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1940) Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. XII. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of the hitherto recorded marine and freshwater species. Annals of the South African Museum, 32, 381 - 543." type="journal article" year="1940">K.H. Barnard, 1940</bibRefCitation>
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describded from shallow waters of 
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, 
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Town (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FD91F8B7C7840438" author="Barnrd" box="[572,721,1879,1904]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1940) Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. XII. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of the hitherto recorded marine and freshwater species. Annals of the South African Museum, 32, 381 - 543." type="journal article" year="1940">Barnrd 1940</bibRefCitation>
). Insufficiency description from 
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FBEAF8B9C0660438" author="Barnard" box="[1095,1331,1879,1904]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1940) Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. XII. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of the hitherto recorded marine and freshwater species. Annals of the South African Museum, 32, 381 - 543." type="journal article" year="1940">K.H. Barnard (1940)</bibRefCitation>
does not allow us to identify the Chinese species as 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FDDAF89DC65C04DC" box="[631,777,1917,1940]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">M. orgazmos</emphasis>
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. Perhaps it is a new species.
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<paragraph id="114D36C0FFD5FF84FF6AF841C5BE039D" blockId="49.[151,1436,151,2013]" lastBlockId="50.[151,1436,151,392]" lastPageId="50" lastPageNumber="51" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">
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<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FF6AF841C43004F1" author="Myers" box="[199,357,1952,1977]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Myers, A. A. (1985) Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Records Australian Museum, 5 (Supplement), 1 - 143. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.5.1985.99" type="journal article" year="1985">Myers (1985)</bibRefCitation>
described from coral reefs of 
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<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFD5FF87FCA4F840C10304F1" authority="Myers, 1985" authorityName="Myers" authorityYear="1985" box="[777,1110,1952,1977]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simplex">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD5FF87FCA4F840C6E604F1" box="[777,947,1952,1977]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="50">Melita simplex</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD5FF87FC6DF841C10304F1" author="Myers" box="[960,1110,1952,1977]" pageId="49" pageNumber="50" refString="Myers, A. A. (1985) Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Records Australian Museum, 5 (Supplement), 1 - 143. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.5.1985.99" type="journal article" year="1985">Myers, 1985</bibRefCitation>
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. Lacking of descriptions of mouthparts and atypical structure of pereopod 1 of male it can not be accurately attributed this species to the genus 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD6FF84FF3AFF77C5B503F8" box="[151,224,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. 
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leave this species with great care in the genus 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD6FF84FC0CFF77C6BF03F8" box="[929,1002,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Melita</emphasis>
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, at the base of structure of coxa 6 of female.
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<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD6FF84FF6AFF00C4F003B0" author="Barnard" box="[199,421,223,248]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1961) Gammaridean Amphipoda: from depths of 400 to 6000 meters. Galathea Report, 5, 23 - 128." type="journal article" year="1961">
<collectorName id="BC075316FFD6FF84FF6AFF00C40603B0" box="[199,339,223,248]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">J.L. Barnard</collectorName>
(1961)
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described from abyssal depths of 
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Sea 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD6FF84FC17FF3FC10303B0" box="[954,1110,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Melita solada</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFD6FF84FBF3FF00C06103B0" author="Barnard" box="[1118,1332,223,248]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51" refString="Barnard, J. L. (1961) Gammaridean Amphipoda: from depths of 400 to 6000 meters. Galathea Report, 5, 23 - 128." type="journal article" year="1961">J.L. Barnard, 1961</bibRefCitation>
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. Lacking of descriptions of pereopods 1 &amp; 2 of male and atypical structure of coxa 6 of female (without of “hooked” lobe) and atypical shape of basis of pereopods 6 &amp; 7 (without posterior wing) it can not be accurately attributed this species to the genus 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD6FF84FE21FEACC480022D" box="[396,469,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. 
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leave this species with great care in the genus 
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFD6FF84FB0CFEACC1BF022D" box="[1185,1258,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Melita</emphasis>
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, at the base of structure of mouth parts only.
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