Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Amphipoda
Subordo: Corophiidea
Infraordo: Corophiida
Superfamilia: Corophioidea
Familia: Corophiidae
Subfamilia: Corophiinae
Tribus: Corophiini
Genus: Corophium
Species: C. affine - C. annulatum - C. arenarium - C. bidentatum - C. bonnellii - C. colo - C. denticulatum - C. heteroceratum - C. hongkongense - C. major - C. minimum - C. minor - C. multisetosum - C. rotundirostre - C. runcicorne - C. serraticaudatum - C. triangulopedarum - C. tridentium - C. tuberculatum - C. urdaibaiense - C. volutator
Corophium is a genus of the amphipod family Corophiidae.[1] Formerly a much larger genus, many species have been transferred to segregate genera such as Monocorophium and Crassicorophium.
Species
Corophium contains 12 species,[2] after the genus was divided into a number of new genera in 1997:[3]
Corophium arenarium Crawford, 1937
Corophium bicaudatus Linnaeus, 1761
Corophium colo Lowry, 2004
Corophium denticulatum Ren, 1995
Corophium grossipes Linnaeus, 1767
Corophium laevicorne Sowinsky, 1880
Corophium linearis Pennant, 1777
Corophium longicornis J. C. Fabricius, 1779
Corophium multisetosum Stock, 1952
Corophium orientale Schellenberg, 1928
Corophium urdaibaiense Marquiegui & Perez, 2006
Corophium volutator (Pallas, 1766)
Corophium arenarium
C. arenarium may reach 7 mm long and looks very similar to C. volutator. It burrows in bottom sediments, between 10 and 60 metres deep. C. arenarium occurs on the coasts of France and the North Sea.[4]
Corophium multisetosum
C. multisetosum may grow to 9 mm and builds mud burrows in clay or sand in fresh or weakly brackish habitats. It occurs on the coasts of the Netherlands, France, Germany, Poland and the British Isles.[5]
Corophium volutator
Main article: Corophium volutator
C. volutator inhabits the upper layers of sand on the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom and France, as well as in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. They grow to 10 mm, and can occur in huge quantities: up to 40,000 per square metre have been observed.[6][7]
References
"ERMS taxon details: Corophium Latreille, 1806". European Register of Marine Species. December 21, 2004.
Jim Lowry, Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini (2011). Lowry J (ed.). "Corophium Latreille, 1806". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
E. L. Bousfield & P. M. Hoover (1997). "The amphipod superfamily Corophioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: 5. Family Corophiidae: Corophiinae, new subfamily: systematics and distributional ecology". Amphipacifica. 2 (3): 67–139.
M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo (1999). "Corophium arenarium". Macrobenthos of the North Sea. Archived from the original on 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo (1999). "Corophium multisetosum". Macrobenthos of the North Sea. Archived from the original on 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo (1999). "Corophium volutator". Macrobenthos of the North Sea. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
J. A. Percy (1999). "Master of the Mudflats". Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership.
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