Urothoe elegans

Urothoe elegans is a species of very small marine amphipod crustaceans in the family Urothoidae. It was first described from Plymouth.

Urothoe elegans
Urothoe elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Amphipod
Suborder:
Gammaridea
Family:
Urothoidae
Genus:
Urothoe
Species:
U. elegans
Binomial name
Urothoe elegans
(Bate, 1857)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gammarus elegans (Mihi)[2]
  • Urothoe abbreviata G. O. Sars, 1879
  • Urothoe norvegica Boeck, 1861

References
  1. A synopsis of the British Edriophthalmous Crustacea—Part. I. Amphipoda. CS Bate, Journal of Natural History, 1857? doi:10.1080/00222935708697715 (description p. 145)
  2. Brit Assoc Report
  • Effects de la temperature sur les rythmes d'emergence des peracarides fouisseurs, Urothoe elegans (amphipode) et Eurydice inermis (isopode). C Macquart‐Moulin - Marine & Freshwater Behaviour & Phy, 1980
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