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Citation: Myers, A.A. & McGrath, D. 1981 Taxonomic studies on British and Irish Amphipoda. The genus Photis with the re-establishment of P. pollex (= P. macrocoxa). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 61: 759-768


Number of Pages: 10

Volume Part: 3

Keywords: Amphipoda, Britain, Crustacea, Fauna, Key, Marine, Sublittoral, Taxonomy

Abstract: Three species of Photis Kroyer are recorded from British and Irish waters, P. pollex Walker is re-established as a distinct species, synonymous with P. macrocoxa Shoemaker which becomes a junior synonym. A key to the British and Irish species is given.