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A finding at the Natural History Museum of Florence affords the holotype designation of Orchestia stephenseni Cecchini, 1928 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae)

Sabrina Lo Brutto

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0106 biological sciencesFleaAmphipodaZoology010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesCrustacea Amphipoda TalitridaeCrustaceaAnimalsAmphipodaOrchestia stephenseniEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsTaxonomybiologyEcologyMuseums010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyHolotypeBiodiversitybiology.organism_classificationCrustaceanNatural historyItalyTalitridaeAnimal Science and ZoologyType locality

description

The beach flea Orchestia stephenseni has been originally described by Cecchini twice (1928, 1929) from the La Spezia type locality (northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy), and successively re-described by Karaman (1973) and Iaciofano & Lo Brutto (2016). 

10.11646/zootaxa.4231.4.6https://hdl.handle.net/10447/589033