Americorchestia

Americorchestia is a genus of beach hoppers in the family Talitridae. There are about five described species in Americorchestia.

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GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassMalacostraca
OrderAmphipoda
FamilyTalitridae

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Specimen records: 4
With media: 3
Family: Talitridae
Collections: MCZ, UF
Recorded in: Mexico, United States

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Instance of: taxon
Image: FMIB 42834 Talorchestia longicornis Adult male from Woods Hole, Mass.jpeg

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taxon name: Americorchestia
taxon rank: genus
Commons category: Americorchestia

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Americorchestia is a genus of beach hoppers in the family Talitridae. There are about five described species in Americorchestia.

==Species== These five species belong to the genus Americorchestia: Americorchestia barbarae Bousfield, 1991 Americorchestia heardi Bousfield, 1991 Americorchestia longicornis (Say, 1818) (common Atlantic sandhopper) Americorchestia megalophthalma (Bate, 1862) (northern big-eyed sandhopper) Americorchestia salomani Bousfield, 1991

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