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Issue: Vol. 4231 No. 4: 14 Feb. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-02-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.4.6
Page range: 569–572
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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)

Dept. Stebicef, Section of Animal Biology, University of Palermo, Via Archirafi 18, Palermo, (Italy)
Crustacea Amphipoda Talitridae

Abstract

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).

 

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