Orchestia montagui Audouin, 1826

Lowry, J. K. & Fanini, Lucia, 2013, Substrate dependent talitrid amphipods from fragmented beaches on the north coast of Crete (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae), including a redefinition of the genus Orchestia and descriptions of Orchestia xylino sp. nov. and Cryptorchestia gen. nov., Zootaxa 3709 (3), pp. 201-229 : 207-208

Orchestia montagui Audouin, 1826

Orchestia Montagui Audouin, 1826: 93 , pl. l l, fig. 7.— Heller, 1866: 2, pl. 1, figs 3, 4.— Grube, 1866: 380, pl. 9, figs 1, 2.— Czerniavski, 1868: 118, pl. 8, figs 34–39.— Stalio, 1877: 171.— Stossich, 1880: 59.— Carus, 1885: 399.— Chevreux, 1893: 128, fig. 2.— Chevreux, 1895: 158.— Cecchini, 1928: 5.— Cecchini, 1929: 3.— Ruffo, 1938: 144.— Ruffo, 1946: 52.— Giordani-Soika, 1950: 193.

? Orchestia Montagui (part)— Carus, 1885: 399.

Orchestia gammarellus .— Della Valle, 1893: 499 (in part).

Orchestia montagui .— Stebbing 1906: 533.— Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 275, fig. 285.— Martynov, 1931: 605.— Stammer, 1932: 593.—Brian, 1939: 8 pp.— Miloslavskaja, 1939: 114.— Ruffo, 1936: 29.— Ruffo, 1937: 39.— Charniaux-Legrand, 1951: 371.— Gurjanova, 1951: 802.— Ruffo, 1951: 7.— Bulycheva, 1957: 155, fig. 56.— J.L. Barnard, 1958: 134.—K'neva- Abadžieva, 1964: 79.—K'neva-Abadžieva, 1965: 75.— Müller, 1967: 165.— Krapp-Schickel, 1969: 314.— G. Karaman, 1970: 6, pls 1, 2.— G. Karaman, 1971: 39.— Krapp-Schickel, 1974: 324.— Louis, 1980: 97 (ecology).— Koukouras & Russo, 1991: 306, table 6.— Bellan-Santini, 1993: 749, fig. 513 (key).— Stefanidou & Voultsiadou-Koukoura, 1995: 603, table 1.— Ruffo, 1995: 43.— De Matthaeis, Cobolli, Davolos & Mattoccia, 1996: 249 (genetics).— De Matthaeis, Davolos & Cobolli, 1998: 37 (genetics).— Krapp-Schickel & Zavodnik, 1996: 460.— Çinar, Ergen, Ozturk & Kirkim, 1998: 157, table 2 (ecology).— De Matthaeis, Ketmaier, Davolos & Cobolli, 1999: 95 (genetics).— De Matthaeis, Davolos, Cobolli & Ketmaier, 2000: 1607 (table 1), 1611, table 4 (genetics).— Sezgin, Kocataş & Katağan, 2001: 59, tables 2, 3.—Colombini, Chelazzi & Fallaci, 2002: 863 (ecology).— Davolos, Ketmaier, Cobolli & De Matthaeis, 2002: 33 (genetics).— Ketmaier, Scapini & De Matthaeis, 2003: 58 (population genetics).— Davolos & Maclean, 2005: 83 (mitochondrial sequences).— Scapini, 2006: 81, table 1 (review).— Rossano, Morgan & Scapini, 2008: 511 (ethology).— Libertini Trisolini & Rampin, 2008: 54, table 1 (genetics).— Zakhama-Sraieb, Sghaier & Charfi-Cheikhrouha, 2009: 5, table 3.— Ruffo, 2010: 7.— Grintsov, 2011: 143 (morphology).— Jelassi, Khemaissia & Nasri-Ammar, 2012: 383 (ecology).—Jelassi & Nasri-Ammar, 2012: 437 (ecology).— Pavesi, Deidun, De Matthaeis, Tiedemann & Ketmaier, 2012: 587 (genetics).

Types. Presumed lost.

Type locality. Egypt.

Material examined. 2 specimens, P.89318, Gouves, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'1"N 25°16'82"E), mixed west beach, transect A - trap 3, L. Fanini, January 2012; 2 specimens, P.89324, Gouves, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'9"N 25°18'24"E), cobble beach, transect A - trap 3, L. Fanini, January 2012; 2 specimens, P.89325, Kokkini Hani, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'2"N 25°16'26"E), banquette beach, transect A - trap 6, L. Fanini, January 2012; 7 specimens, P.89326, Kokkini Hani, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'2"N 25°16'26"E), banquette beach, transect A - trap 4, L. Fanini, January 2012; 3 specimens, P.89327, Gouves, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'9"N 25°18'24"E), cobble beach, transect A - trap 2, L. Fanini, September 2012; 9 specimens, P.89328, Gouves, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'9"N 25°18'24"E), cobble beach, transect A - trap 1, L. Fanini, September 2012; 28 specimens, P.89329, Gournes, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'4"N 25°16'49"E), west beach, mixed sand/gravel, transect A - trap 0, L. Fanini, September 2011; 15 specimens, P.89330, Gouves, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'9"N 25°18'24"E), cobble beach, transect B - trap 2, L. Fanini, November 2011; 8 specimens, Greece, P.89331, Gouves, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'9"N 25°18'24"E), cobble beach, transect A - trap 5, L. Fanini, November 2011; a few specimens, P.89332, Kokkini Hani, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (35°20'2"N 25°16'26"E), banquette beach, transect A - trap 1, L. Fanini, July 2011.

Diagnosis (based on adult male). Gnathopod 1 carpus with projecting palmate lobe. Gnathopod 2 dactylus with posterodistal sinus and large projection. Pleopod 7 sexually dimorphic (merus and carpus enlarged). Telson with 3–6 apical robust setae per lobe.

Habitat. Marine supralittoral living in banquette Posidonia and on mixed sand and coarse gravel beaches.

Distribution. Orchestia montagui is an apparent Mediterranean and Black Sea endemic widely reported from a number of coasts, such as those of Spain ( Chevreux & Fage 1925); France ( Chevreux & Fage 1925, Charniaux- Legrand 1951, Karaman 1970); Italy ( Cecchini 1928, Stammer 1932, Ruffo 1936, Brian 1939, Giordani-Soika 1950, Bellan-Santini 1993); Yugoslavia ( Heller 1866, Ruffo 1946, Krapp-Schickel 1969, Karaman 1971); Greece ( Bellan-Santini 1993, Karaman 1970, De Matthaeis et al. 1998, this study); Turkey ( Geldiay et al. 1971, Karaman 1971); Black Sea ( Karaman 1970, Grintsov 2011); Egypt ( Audouin 1826), Tunisia ( Chevreux 1911) and Algeria ( Chevreux 1911).