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Elasmopus A. Costa, 1853

101671 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101671)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Malacostraca
  7. Eumalacostraca
  8. Peracarida
  9. Amphipoda
  10. Senticaudata
  11. Hadziida
  12. Hadziidira
  13. Hadzioidea
  14. Maeridae
  15. Elasmopus
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Genus
Elasmopus rapax A. Costa, 1853 (type by monotypy)
Maeridae Krapp-Schickel, 2008

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Costa, A. (1853). Richerche sui crostacei amfipodi del regno di Napoli / del Dot. Achille Costa. <em>Mem. Reale Accad. Sc. Napoli.</em> 1, 165-235., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/2070#/summary [details] 
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2026). World Amphipoda Database. Elasmopus A. Costa, 1853. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101671 on 2026-07-25
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Elasmopus A. Costa, 1853. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=101671 on 2026-07-25
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan-Santini, Denise
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
checked
Costello, Mark J.
2010-10-11 12:31:08Z
changed
Lowry, Jim
2010-10-12 07:32:39Z
changed
Lowry, Jim
2018-09-19 08:52:19Z
changed
Horton, Tammy
2023-05-05 11:02:09Z
changed
Horton, Tammy

original description Costa, A. (1853). Richerche sui crostacei amfipodi del regno di Napoli / del Dot. Achille Costa. <em>Mem. Reale Accad. Sc. Napoli.</em> 1, 165-235., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/2070#/summary [details] 

context source (WoRCS) Navarro-Barranco, C.; Martínez, A.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Chebaane, S.; Digenis, M.; Plaitis, W.; Voultsiadou, E.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2023). Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge. <em>Diversity.</em> 15(12): 1180., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/12/1180 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

basis of record Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

identification resource Alves, J., Johnsson, R. & Senna, A. R. (2016). On the genus Elasmopus Costa, 1853 from the Northeastern Coast of Brazil with five new species and new records. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4184 (1): 001–040., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.1
note: Updated Key to world species of Elasmopus [details] Available for editors  PDF available

identification resource Vader, W.; Krapp-Schickel, T. (2012). On some maerid and melitid material (Crustacea: Amphipoda) collected by the Hourglass Cruises (Florida). Part 2: Genera <i>Dulichiella</i> and <i>Elasmopus </i>, with a key to world <i>Elasmopus</i>. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 46(19-20): 1179-1218., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2011.652984
note: Key to World Elasmopus [details] Available for editors  PDF available

identification resource Yoshimura, H.; Lee, C.-W.; Tomikawa, K. (2025). Taxonomy of the genus Elasmopus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in Japan and South Korea, with description of a new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1261: 307-335., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1261.162923
page(s): 331; note: Key to the species of Elasmopus from East Asia [details] Available for editors  PDF available

identification resource Nahak, S.; Patra, S.; Patro, S. (2026). Description of a new species of the genus Elasmopus A. Costa, 1853 (Amphipoda: Maeridae) by morphological and molecular analysis. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 56(3)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-026-01667-9
page(s): 8, 9; note: Key to species of the Castelloserrate group of the genus Elasmopus A. Costa, 1853 and geographical distribution (Modified from Vader and Krapp-Schickel 2012). Key to species of Elasmopus from South...    
Key to species of the Castelloserrate group of the genus Elasmopus A. Costa, 1853 and geographical distribution (Modified from Vader and Krapp-Schickel 2012). Key to species of Elasmopus from Southeast Asia (Modified from Vader and Krapp-Schickel 2012; Yoshimura and Tomikawa 2025)
[details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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