Citation: Myers, A.A. & McGrath, D. 1991 The Ampelisca diadema group of species (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) in British and Irish waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 71: 265-279
Number of Pages: 15
Volume Part: 2
Keywords: Amphipoda, Benthos, Crustacea, England, Fauna, France, Key, Marine, Scotland, Sublittoral, Taxonomy
Abstract: Paper reassesses the characters widely used for identifying members of the Ampelisca diadema group of amphipods. Highly variable characters are discarded in favour of more stable ones. Both sexes of all four species known from the North-east Atlantic are figured and diagnoses and a key to the species are provided. Many thousands of specimens were examined from localities in Ireland, England, Scotland and France.