Americorchestia salomani

Author
Bousfield, 1991
Common Names
  • Eastern Gulf Sandhopper

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Min Depth
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Max Depth
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Overall Geographic Range
Apalachicola, Florida to Mississippi Delta
Habitat-Biology
  • beach and shoreline
  • endemic to Gulf of Mexico
  • intertidal to semiterrestrial
  • soft substrate (sand; mud)
References

  • Bousfield, E. L. 1991. New sandhoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Gulf coast of the United States. Gulf Research Reports 8(3): 271–283.

  • Rakocinski, C., R. W. Heard, T. Simons, and D. Gledhill. 1991. Macroinvertebrate associations from beaches of selected barrier islands in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Important environmental relationships. Bulletin of Marine Science 48(3): 689–701.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

LeCroy, S. E., R. Gasca, I. Winfield, M. Ortiz, and E. Escobar-Briones. 2009. Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 941–972 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-10-2024.

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