WoRMS taxon details
Hyperoche medusarum (Kröyer, 1838)
103256 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103256)
accepted
Species
Hyperia prehensilis Spence Bate & Westwood, 1868 · unaccepted
Hyperia tauriformis Spence Bate & Westwood, 1868 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885 · unaccepted (regarded a synonym of Hyperoche...)
regarded a synonym of Hyperoche medusarum (Kroyer, 1838).
Hyperoche luetkeni Bovallius, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Hyperoche tauriformis (Spence Bate & Westwood, 1868) · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Metoecus medusarum Kröyer, 1838 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Metoecus medusarum Kröyer, 1838) Kröyer, H. (1838). Grönlands Amfipoder. [Amphipods of Greenland]. <em>Det Konigelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger, series 4.</em> 7: 229-326, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 288-29, Pl. III Fig. 5 [details]
page(s): 288-29, Pl. III Fig. 5 [details]
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and...
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), lower North Shore, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Hyperoche medusarum (Kröyer, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103256 on 2025-04-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885) Kröyer, H. (1838). Grönlands Amfipoder. [Amphipods of Greenland]. <em>Det Konigelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger, series 4.</em> 7: 229-326, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 288-291 Pl.3 fig. 15a-n; note: Originally described as Motoecus medusarum [details]
original description (of Hyperia prehensilis Spence Bate & Westwood, 1868) Bate C. S. & J. O. Westwood. (1863-68). A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Vol. 2. John Van Voorst, London, i-lvi + 536 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1831670
page(s): 520 [details]
original description (of Hyperia tauriformis Spence Bate & Westwood, 1868) Bate C. S. & J. O. Westwood. (1863-68). A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Vol. 2. John Van Voorst, London, i-lvi + 536 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1831670
page(s): 519 [details]
original description (of Metoecus medusarum Kröyer, 1838) Kröyer, H. (1838). Grönlands Amfipoder. [Amphipods of Greenland]. <em>Det Konigelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger, series 4.</em> 7: 229-326, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 288-29, Pl. III Fig. 5 [details]
original description (of Hyperoche luetkeni Bovallius, 1887) Bovallius, C. (1887). Systematical list of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar.</em> 11(16): 1-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14184578 [details]
basis of record Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 288-291 Pl.3 fig. 15a-n; note: Originally described as Motoecus medusarum [details]
original description (of Hyperia prehensilis Spence Bate & Westwood, 1868) Bate C. S. & J. O. Westwood. (1863-68). A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Vol. 2. John Van Voorst, London, i-lvi + 536 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1831670
page(s): 520 [details]
original description (of Hyperia tauriformis Spence Bate & Westwood, 1868) Bate C. S. & J. O. Westwood. (1863-68). A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Vol. 2. John Van Voorst, London, i-lvi + 536 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1831670
page(s): 519 [details]
original description (of Metoecus medusarum Kröyer, 1838) Kröyer, H. (1838). Grönlands Amfipoder. [Amphipods of Greenland]. <em>Det Konigelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger, series 4.</em> 7: 229-326, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 288-29, Pl. III Fig. 5 [details]
original description (of Hyperoche luetkeni Bovallius, 1887) Bovallius, C. (1887). Systematical list of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar.</em> 11(16): 1-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14184578 [details]
basis of record Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source De Broyer, C.; Jazdzewski, K. (1993). Contribution to the marine biodiversity inventory. A checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean. <em>Documents de Travail de l' Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique.</em> 73, 1-154. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source De Broyer, C.; Jazdzewski, K. (1993). Contribution to the marine biodiversity inventory. A checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean. <em>Documents de Travail de l' Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique.</em> 73, 1-154. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), lower North Shore, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras [details]Habitat upper epipelagic of the Gulf and estuary [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ハサミウミノミ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (35 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hyperoche medusarum)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard (from synonym Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (11 records) (from synonym Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (43 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hyperoche medusarum)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard (from synonym Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (11 records) (from synonym Hyperoche kroeyeri Bovallius, 1885)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (43 records)
To ITIS
