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On the Amphipod Genus Talitrus, with a description of a new species from the Scilly Isles, T. dorrieni n. sp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

O. D. Hunt
O. D. Hunt
Affiliation:
Assistant Naturalist at the Plymouth Laboratory
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During the winter of 1924–25 some living specimens of a terrestrial sand-hopper were sent by Major A. A. Dorrien-Smith, D.S.O., Governor of the Isles of Scilly, to Mrs. E. W. Sexton of the Plymouth Laboratory. The specimens, which were handed over to the writer by Mrs. Sexton, have proved on examination to belong to a new species, which is described below and given the name Talitrus dorrieni.

According to information received with the specimens the species has a truly terrestrial habitat: it is found living among the moist humus and under dead leaves in the gardens of Tresco Abbey.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1925 , pp. 854 - 869
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1925

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