Americorchestia

Americorchestia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Amphipoda
Family:	Talitridae
Genus:	Americorchestia Bousfield, 1991

Americorchestia is a genus of beach hoppers in the family Talitridae. There are about five described species in Americorchestia. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These five species belong to the genus Americorchestia:

• Americorchestia barbarae Bousfield, 1991
• Americorchestia heardi Bousfield, 1991
• Americorchestia longicornis (Say, 1818) (common Atlantic sandhopper)
• Americorchestia megalophthalma (Bate, 1862) (northern big-eyed sandhopper)
• Americorchestia salomani Bousfield, 1991

References

1. "Americorchestia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Americorchestia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Americorchestia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Bousfield, E. L. (1991). "New sandhoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the gulf coast of the United States". Gulf Research Reports. 8 (3): 271–283. doi:10.18785/grr.0803.07. ISSN   0072-9027.
• Friend, J. A. (1987). "The Terrestrial Amphipods (Amphipoda: Talitridae) of Tasmania: Systematics and Zoogeography" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum Supplement. 7: 1–85. ISBN   978-0-7305-3622-2. ISSN   0067-1975.

External links

• Media related to Americorchestia at Wikimedia Commons