| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Urothoe Dana, 1852 |
| Source | |
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]
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| Environment | | marine |
| Feedingtype | |
deposit feeder [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
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To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: An amphipod with a relatively rounded, broad and robust body (like Urothoe brevicornis). The eyes are very large in males and contiguous on top of the head. The eyes of females are smaller and oval. The body is reddish in colour. Differs from U. brevicornis in having a much broader fifth pair of legs. [details]
Distribution: In both periods Urothoe poseidonis mainly occurred in the near-coastal zone, with the exception of the eastern coastal zone but with the inclusion of the western Flemish Banks. Whereas the species was only found 15 times and with a maximum density of 50 ind./m2 in the 1976-1986 period, the species had a higher distribution frequency and maximum density (750 ind./m2) in the 1994-2001 period. In the latter period the species was mainly found in the western near-coastal zone. [details]
Habitat: Urothoe poseidonis occurs in fine-grained sediments and reaches a relative occurrence of at least 20% in sediments with a median grain size ranging from 150 to 300 µm. The species avoids
muddy sediments (mud content maximum 40%). [details]
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| Images | | 
Picture of Urothoe poseidonis
added on 2004-06-17 - author: Hillewaert, H.
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Urothoe poseidonis Reibish, 1905
added on 2006-02-10 - author: Hans Hillewaert
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103235 |
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| | | Citation: Costello, M.; Bellan-Santini, D. (2013). Urothoe poseidonis Reibish, 1905. 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=103235 on 2013-05-24 |
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