Galapagos Species Database

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Apolochus neapolitanus (Della Valle, 1893)

Amphipodo, Amphipods

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Malacostraca

Order
Amphipoda

Suborder
Amphilochidea

Superfamily
Amphilochoidea

Family
Amphilochidae

Genus
Apolochus

Species
neapolitanus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Amphilochus neapolitanus Della Valle, 1893 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

References

  • Barnard, J.L. (1979) Littoral Gammaridean Amphipoda from de Gulf of California and the Galápagos Islands. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 271: 1-149.
  • Barnard, J.L. (1964) Marine Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands. Galápagos International Scientific Project, January - March 1964, unpublished report: 1-11.
  • Barnard, J.L. (1991) Amphipoda of the Galápagos Islands. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrates. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press, New York and London, p. 193-206.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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