Marinogammarus finmarchicus ( Dahl, 1938 )

Vader, Wim & Tandberg, Anne Helene Solberg, 2019, Gammarid amphipods (Crustacea) in Norway, with a key to the species, Fauna norvegica 39, pp. 12-25 : 20-21

13. Marinogammarus finmarchicus ( Dahl, 1938)

Synonyms: Gammarus finmarchicus auct.; Chaetogammarus finmarchicus auct; Gammarus greenfieldi Shoemaker, 1938 ; Echinogammarus finmarchicus auct.

Description and illustrations: Dahl 1938, p. 125, figs 1-10 ( Gammarus f.); Stephensen 1935 -42, p. 344, figs 45- 46 p. p.; Sexton & Spooner 1940, p. 656, figs 6,7; Bousfield 1973, p. 58, pl. 7; Lincoln 1979, pp 238, 243, 247, figs 110d, 111g, 113 ( Gammarus f.)

Ecology and habitat: Under stones in the lower intertidal, preferably where some water remains at low tide. Penetrates to a certain distance in fjords: in Hardanger to indre Samlafjorden ( Brattegard 1966), in the Sognefjord to Helle ( Vader 1977a).

Distribution: Common along most of the Norwegian coast (not in Svalbard), but there are few records as yet from the Skagerrak coast.