TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wildish, J.
A1  - Pavesi, Laura
A1  - Ketmaier, Valerio
T1  - Talitrid amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) and the driftwood ecological niche  a morphological and molecular study
JF  - Journal of natural history : an international journal of systematics, interactive biology and biodiversity. - London : Taylor & Francis   1.1967 -
N2  - Coastal regions of the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas have four known species of driftwood talitrids. Records are extremely scanty, often limited to the type locality and dating to 1950. We were able to study three of them, all belonging to the genus Macarorchestia, using fresh and archived samples including type material. Allometric and molecular analyses support: (1) a close relationship among all the three classically defined Macarorchestia species, (2) Macarorchestia was well separated from non-driftwood taxa, and (3) a putative new driftwood talitrid discovered during this study was not closely related to Macarorchestia. Genetic divergence between the new species and Macarorchestia remyi is as high as the average distance among a number of talitrid species included in the study for comparison. A key is provided to identify all three of the presently known species of Macarorchestia, using morphological characters employed in the allometric study.
KW  - Macarorchestia remyi
KW  - Macarorchestia roffensis
KW  - Macarorchestia martini
KW  - Driftwood habitat
KW  - COI-DNA barcoding
KW  - allometry
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.717971
SN  - 0022-2933
VL  - 46
IS  - 43-44
SP  - 2677
EP  - 2700
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -