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Melita obtusata (Montagu, 1813) 
AphiaID: 102841

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Malacostraca > Eumalacostraca > Peracarida > Amphipoda > Senticaudata > Hadziida > Hadziidira > Hadzioidea > Melitidae > Melita
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Synonym)
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Accepted name  Abludomelita obtusata (Montagu, 1813)
Rank Species
Parent Melita Leach, 1814
Sources  additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Lincoln, R.J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History): London, UK. ISBN 0-565-00818-8. vi, 658 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Faasse, M.; Van Moorsel, G. (2000). Nieuwe en minder bekende vlokreeftjes van sublitorale harde bodems in het Deltagebied (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) [New and lesser-known amphipods of hard substrates in the Delta area of the Netherlands (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea)]. Ned. Faunist. Meded. 11: 19-44 (look up in IMIS[details]

Environment marine
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Nomenclature: In the Dutch literature Abludomelita obtusata is mentioned as Melita obtusata . Karaman (1981) placed the latter species in a new genus namely Abludomelita [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102841
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan-Santini, Denise
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  checked  Costello, Mark
  
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  Citation: Costello, M.; Bellan-Santini, D. (2013). Melita obtusata (Montagu, 1813). In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102841 on 2013-05-20