Monocorophium

Monocorophium
Monocorophium acherusicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Amphipoda
Family:
Corophiidae
Genus:
Monocorophium

Bousfield & Hoover, 1997

Monocorophium is a genus of amphipod crustaceans.

Species

The genus Monocorophium comprises the following species:[1]

  • Monocorophium acherusicum (Costa, 1853)
  • Monocorophium californianum (Shoemaker, 1934)
  • Monocorophium carlottensis Bousfield & Hoover, 1997
  • Monocorophium cylindricum (Say, 1818)
  • Monocorophium insidiosum (Crawford, 1937)
  • Monocorophium josei ValĂ©rio-Berardo & Thiago de Souza, 2009
  • Monocorophium oaklandense (Shoemaker, 1949)
  • Monocorophium sextonae (Crawford, 1937)
  • Monocorophium steinegeri (Gurjanova, 1951)
  • Monocorophium tuberculatum (Shoemaker, 1934)
  • Monocorophium uenoi (Stephensen, 1932)

Monocorophium acherusicum

Monocorophium acherusicum is a small (5 mm) species. It is brown with a very short abdomen, and has three little spines on its enlarged second antennae. It has rows of hair on its anterior legs, which it uses to filter food from the water.[2] It naturally occurs in Europe, but was introduced to harbours of Australia by travelling in the ballast water of ships.[3]

Monocorophium insidiosum

Monocorophium insidiosum builds tubes of mud and detritus on weeds, usually in brackish shallow subtidal waters, such as brackish lagoons, ditches and rivers. C. insidiosum occurs on American and European coasts from southern Baltic to eastern Mediterranean of North and South, and around Japan, and may grow up to 5 mm long.[4]

Monocorophium sextonae

Monocorophium sextonae is 5 mm long and builds tubes of mud on algae, from shallow water up to 50 m deep. It occurs naturally in New Zealand, but was introduced into Plymouth, Devon in the 1930s. In the late 1970 it was introduced to Ireland, possibly by natural means from Devon. It can also be found along the European coast from southern Norway to the Mediterranean.[5][6]

References
  1. Jim Lowry & Claude De Broyer (2011). Lowry J (ed.). "Monocorophium Bousfield & Hoover, 1997". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
  2. M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo (1999). "Corophium acherusicum". Macrobenthos of the North Sea.
  3. "Corophium acherusicum". Museum Victoria Australia. 1996.
  4. M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo (1999). "Corophium insidiosum". Macrobenthos of the North Sea.
  5. M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo (1999). "Corophium sectonae". Macrobenthos of the North Sea.
  6. "Corophium sextonae". Joint Nature Conservation Committee.


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