Elasmopus rapax Costa 1853
- Dataset
- Annotated Checklist of Marine Amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of India
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Maeridae
- genus
- Elasmopus
- species
- Elasmopus rapax
distribution
Distribution. World: Gulf of Taranto (Costa 1853), South Africa (Barnard 1955), Mediterranean Sea (Ayari 2004), Gulf of Mexico (Felder & Camp 2009), Greece (Koukouras 2010), Caribbean Sea, Cuba (Miloslavich et al. 2010), North Atlantic Ocean (Borges et al. 2010), Ireland (Guiry & Guiry 2011), India (Sivaprakasam 1968 a).
materials_examined
India: Western India Ecoregion: Arabian Sea (Surya Rao 1972); South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Sivaprakasam 1968 a); Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion: Bay of Bengal (Surya Rao 1972).
materials_examined
Type locality: Gulf of Taranto. Synonyms: Elasmopus affinis Della Valle, 1893; Elasmopus congoensis Shoemaker, 1920; Gammarus brevicaudatus H. Milne Edwards, 1830 sensu Spence Bate, 1857; Maera brevicaudata (Spence Bate, 1862); Megamoera brevicaudata Spence Bate, 1862.
Name
- Homonyms
- Elasmopus rapax Costa 1853