Photis conchicola
| Photis conchicola | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Infraorder: | Caprellida |
| Family: | Photidae |
| Genus: | Photis |
| Species: | P. conchicola |
| Binomial name | |
| Photis conchicola Alderman, 1936 | |
Photis conchicola is a species of marine amphipod crustacean which lives in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. It grows to a length of 5.5 mm (0.22 in), and lives on rocky beaches among algae and surfgrass.[1] It often inhabits discarded gastropod shells, which it attaches to marine plants.[2]
Ecology
Predators of P. conchicola include the fish Embiotoca lateralis.[2] The shells used by P. conchicola are chiefly Alia carinata, Tricolia pulloides, Bittium eschrichtii, Amphissa versicolor, Lacuna marmorata and Lacuna unifasciata.[2]
References
| External identifiers for Photis conchicola | |
|---|---|
| Encyclopedia of Life | 342762 |
| ITIS | 94079 |
- ↑ John W. Chapman (2007). "Gammaridea". The Light and Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon (PDF) (4th ed.). University of California Press. pp. 545–618. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 John W. Carter (1982). "Natural history observations on the gastropod shell-using amphipod Photis conchicola Alderman, 1936". Journal of Crustacean Biology 2 (3): 328–341. doi:10.2307/1548051.