Melita nitida

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 13 meters (43 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Smith S. I. Report of the entomologist. The prionus apple-tree and grape-vine borer (Prionus brevicornis Fabricius) 6th Report of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture (1872-73): 346-348., 1873.

Last scrutiny: 30-Dec-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Melita

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Further Reading

• A biological survey of the waters of Woods Hole and vicinity / By Francis B. Sumner, Raymond C. Osburn, and Leon J. Cole. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1913 url p. 652, p. 849.
• American journal of physiology. [Bethesda, Md., etc.]American Physiological Society [etc.] url p. 211.
• An ecological characterization of Coastal Maine (north and east of Cape Elizabeth) / Stewart I. Fefer and Patricia S. Schettig: principal investigators. Newton Corner, Mass.: Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region, 1980. url , .
• Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum, 1911: including a list of the specimens and publications received during the year, with a report of the crustacea of New Jersey. Trenton, N.J.: MacCrellish & Quigley, 1912. url p. 187, p. 507, p. 638.
• Bulletin - New York State Museum. Albany: New York State Education Dept. url p. 162.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 75.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url , p. 505, p. 508.
• Ecological evaluation of a beach nourishment project at Hallandale (Broward County), Florida / prepared for U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center. Fort Belvoir, Va.: National Technical Information Service, Operations Division [distributor, 1980] url p. 18.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 43, p. 48.
• Fauna of New England. Boston, Printed for the [Boston] Society [of Natural History] from the Gurdon Saltonstall Fund, 1904-25. url p. 69.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 281, p. 325, p. 525.
• Higher Crustacea of New York City By Frederick C. Paulmier Albany, New York State Education Dept., 1905 url p. 162.
• Higher Crustacea of New York city. Albany, New York State Education Department, 1905. url .
• Keys to marine invertebrates of the Woods Hole region: a manual for the identification of the more common marine invertebrates / compiled by Ralph I. Smith with the assistance of many other contributors. Woods Hole, Mass.: Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1964. url p. 114.
• Marine and estuarine environments, organisms, and geology of the Cape Cod region; an indexed bibliography, 1665-1965 [by] Anne E. Yentsch [and others. Woods Hole, Mass., Systematics Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory[c1966] url p. 123.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url , p. 2, p. 25.
• Ocean dumping in the New York Bight: an assessment of environmental studies / by George Pararas-Carayannis. Fort Belvoir, Va.: Available from NTIS, 1973. url p. 88.
• Postilla. 1964 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url expl. of fig. 1 , p. 1, p. 1, p. 28, p. 28, p. 30, p. 30, p. 5, p. 5.
• Proceedings of the National Shellfisheries Association. Plymouth, Mass., Published for the National Shellfisheries Association by MPG Communications. url p. 8, p. 9.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 371.
• Publications in biological oceanography / Ottawa: The Museum, 1970-1982. url p. 17.
• Report on the conditions of the sea fisheries of the south coast of New England / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1873. url p. 314, p. 331, p. 331, p. 382, p. 392, p. 392, p. 434, p. 434, p. 471, p. 471, p. 476, p. 476, p. 479, p. 479, p. 480, p. 560, p. 560.
• Report on the progress and condition of the U.S. National Museum for the year ending June 30. .. / Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Washington: G.P.O., 1907-1951. url p. 124.
• Report upon the invertebrate animals of Vineyard Sound and adjacent waters: with an account of the physical features of the region / by A.E. Verrill and S.T. Smith. Washington: G.P.O., 1874. url p. 140, p. 177, p. 182, p. 185, p. 186, p. 20, p. 266, p. 98.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 18.
• The Arthrostraca of Connecticut / by B.W. Kunkel Hartford: Printed for the State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1918 url p. 255, p. 35, p. 41, p. 44, p. 99.
• The Arthrostraca of Connecticut, Hartford, Printed for the State Geological and Natural History Society, 1918. url , , , , .
• The Arthrostraca of Connecticut. Hartford, State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1918. url p. 255, p. 35, p. 41, p. 44, p. 99.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 284, p. 64.
• The ecology of the Apalachicola Bay system: an estuarine profile / by Robert J. Livingston (Department of Biological Science, Florida State University); prepared for National Coastal Ecosystems Team, Division of Biological Services, Research and Development, Fish an Washington, D.C.: The Service, [1984] url p. 52.
• The sea-beach at ebb-tide: a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks / by Augusta Foote Arnold. New York: The Century Co., 1901. url p. 290, p. 485.
• The sea-beach at ebb-tide; a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks. By Augusta Foote Arnold, with more than 600 illustrations. New York, The Century Co., 1901. url p. 290, p. 485.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vacinity
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Biogeography Scheldt Estuary
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: EPA'S EMAP Database
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NBI
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NOAA HML Tidal Creek Database
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: The SERTC Invertebrate Database: Invertebrates of the southeastern United States
• National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2704479
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-93812
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13838819
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 93812
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 521013

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 30.620 based on 134 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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