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Melita Leach, 1814

Melita palmata (male)
Melita palmata (male)

101679 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101679)

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  1. Species Melita bulla Karaman, 1978
  2. Species Melita coroninii Heller, 1866
  3. Species Melita hergensis Reid, 1939
  4. Species Melita nitida S.I. Smith in Verrill & Smith, 1874
  5. Species Melita palmata (Montagu, 1804)
  6. Species Melita abyssorum Stephensen, 1944 accepted as Quasimelita abyssorum (Stephensen, 1944) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  7. Species Melita amoena Hansen, 1888 accepted as Abludomelita amoena (Hansen, 1888)
  8. Species Melita dentata (Krøyer, 1842) accepted as Megamoera dentata (Krøyer, 1842) (superseded combination)
  9. Species Melita formosa Murdoch, 1885 accepted as Quasimelita formosa (Murdoch, 1885) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  10. Species Melita gladiosa Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862 accepted as Abludomelita gladiosa (Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  11. Species Melita obtusata (Montagu, 1813) accepted as Abludomelita obtusata (Montagu, 1813) (Synonym)
  12. Species Melita pallida G.O. Sars, 1879 accepted as Megamoera pallida (G.O. Sars, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  13. Species Melita pellucida G.O. Sars, 1883 accepted as Allomelita pellucida (G.O. Sars, 1883) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  14. Species Melita quadrispinosa Vosseler, 1889 accepted as Quasimelita quadrispinosa (Vosseler, 1889)
  15. Species Melita reidi Hamond, 1965 accepted as Desdimelita reidi (Hamond, 1965) accepted as Tegano reidi (Hamond, 1965)
  16. Species Melita richardi Chevreux, 1900 accepted as Abludomelita richardi (Chevreux, 1900) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  17. Species Melita valesi Karaman, 1955 accepted as Paraniphargus valesi (Karaman, 1955) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  18. Species Melita virgula Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo & Schiecke, 1994 accepted as Tegano virgula (Krapp-Schickel, Ruffo & Schiecke, 1994)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Leach, W.E. (1813 - 1815). Crustaceology. <em>In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].</em> :383-437., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640
page(s): 403; note: (Bottom-Left corner) [details] OpenAccess publication
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. Melita Leach, 1814. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=101679 on 2026-08-11
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Melita Leach, 1814. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=101679 on 2026-08-11
Date
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1998-01-13 20:52:06Z
created
Fondo, Esther
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
checked
Costello, Mark J.
2006-09-25 06:54:45Z
changed
Martinez, Olga
2010-10-26 10:14:21Z
checked
Lowry, Jim
2010-11-09 10:34:31Z
changed
Lowry, Jim
2020-07-10 13:15:08Z
changed
Horton, Tammy
2022-09-03 12:34:33Z
changed
Horton, Tammy
2026-03-20 09:13:47Z
changed
Horton, Tammy

original description Leach, W.E. (1813 - 1815). Crustaceology. <em>In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].</em> :383-437., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37187640
page(s): 403; note: (Bottom-Left corner) [details] OpenAccess publication

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] 

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details] 

additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Lincoln, R. J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 658 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

identification resource Krapp-Schickel, T. ; Sket, B. (2015). Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae), a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3948: 248-262., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3948.2.6 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

identification resource Thacker, D.; Myers, A. A.; Trivedi, J. N. (2025). One new species of Melita Leach, 1814 (Hadzioidea, Melitidae) from Gujarat State, India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5717(1): 127-137., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5717.1.8
page(s): 133; note: Morphological identification key for species of Group B1 of Melita (modified from Krapp-Schickel & Sket, 2015) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

identification resource Tomikawa, K.; Yamato, S.; Ariyama, H. (2025). Black-And-White Disruptive Coloration May be Convergent: A New Species of Melita (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Japan. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 42(6)., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs250074
page(s): 13; note: Key to species of Melita with pleonites 1–3 and urosomite 1 lacking dorsal teeth/projections, and uropod 3 bearing 2-articulate outer ramus [details] Available for editors  PDF available

identification resource Queiroz, B.; Senna, A. R. (2026). A new species of Melita Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Marapendi Lagoon, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. <em>Nauplius.</em> 34., available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e20260571
note: Identification key to Neotropical species of Melita (including M. bousfieldi, M. orgasmos and M. nitida) [details] 

identification resource Springthorpe, R. T. (2026). The Melitidae redefined and a review of the genera and species from the southern Indo-Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Hadzioidea, Melitidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5765(1): 1-108., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5765.1.1
page(s): 28; note: Key to marine and estuarine species of Melita (males) from the southern hemisphere [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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