Corophium 5722652 204449732 2008-04-09T13:51:57Z Vigilius 6052252 {{Taxobox | name = ''Corophium'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | subphylum = [[Crustacean|Crustacea]] | classis = [[Malacostraca]] | ordo = [[Amphipod]]a | subordo = [[Corophiidea]] | familia = [[Corophiidae]] | genus = '''''Corophium''''' | genus_authority = [[Pierre André Latreille|Latreille]], 1806 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''See text'' }} '''''Corophium''''' is a [[genus]] of the [[amphipod]] [[Family (biology)|family]] ''[[Corophiidae]]''&nbsp;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101489 |title=ERMS taxon details: ''Corophium'' Latreille, 1806 |publisher=[[European Register of Marine Species]] |date=[[2004-12-21]]}}</ref>. Most ''Corophium'' species live in [[marine (ocean)|marine]] and [[brackish water]] environments. ==Species== The genus consists of at least 50 described species, including: {{col-begin|width=auto}} {{col-break}} *''[[Corophium acherusicum|C. acherusicum]]'' <small>Costa, 1851</small> *''[[Corophium aculeatum|C. aculeatum]]'' <small>Chevreux, 1908</small> *''[[Corophium acutum|C. acutum]]'' <small>Chevreux, 1908</small> *''[[Corophium affine|C. affine]]'' <small>Bruzelius, 1859</small> *''[[Corophium alienense|C. alienense]]'' <small>Chapman, 1988</small> *''[[Corophium annulatum|C. annulatum]]'' <small>Chevreux, 1908</small> *''[[Corophium arenarium|C. arenarium]]'' <small>Crawford, 1937</small> *''[[Corophium baconi|C. baconi]]'' <small>Shoemaker, 1934</small> *''[[Corophium bidentatum|C. bidentatum]]'' <small>Mona & Shoukr, 1989</small> *''[[Corophium bonnellii|C. bonnellii]]'' <small>Milne-Edwards, 1830</small> *''[[Corophium brevis|C. brevis]]'' <small>Shoemaker, 1949</small> *''[[Corophium chelicorne|C. chelicorne]]'' <small>Sars, 1895</small> *''[[Corophium clarencense|C. clarencense]]'' <small>Shoemaker, 1949</small> *''[[Corophium colo|C. colo]]'' <small>Lowry, 2004</small> *''[[Corophium crassicorne|C. crassicorne]]'' <small>Bruzelius, 1859</small> *''[[Corophium curvispinum|C. curvispinum]]'' <small>Sars, 1895</small> (= ''C. sowinskyi'') *''[[Corophium denticulatum|C. denticulatum]]'' <small>Ren, 1995</small> *''[[Corophium ellisi|C. ellisi]]'' <small>Shoemaker, 1943</small> *''[[Corophium heteroceratum|C. heteroceratum]]'' <small>Yu, 1938</small> *''[[Corophium hongkongense|C. hongkongense]]'' <small>Hirayama, 1986</small> *''[[Corophium insidiosum|C. insidiosum]]'' <small>Crawford, 1937</small> *''[[Corophium lacustre|C. lacustre]]'' <small>Vanhoffen, 1911</small> *''[[Corophium lamellate|C. lamellate]]'' <small>Hirayama, 1984</small> *''[[Corophium louisianum|C. louisianum]]'' <small>Shoemaker, 1934</small> *''[[Corophium maeoticum|C. maeoticum]]'' <small>Sowinsky 1898</small> {{col-break}} *''[[Corophium major|C. major]]''<small> Ren, 1992</small> *''[[Corophium minimum|C. minimum]]'' <small>Schiecke, 1979</small> *''[[Corophium mortoni|C. mortoni]]'' <small>Hirayama, 1986</small> *''[[Corophium mucronatum|C. mucronatum]]'' <small>Sars</small> *''[[Corophium multisetosum|C. multisetosum]]'' <small>Stock, 1952</small> *''[[Corophium nobile|C. nobile]]'' <small>Sars</small> *''[[Corophium oaklandense|C. oaklandense]]'' <small>Shoemaker, 1949</small> *''[[Corophium orientale|C. orientale]]'' <small>Schellenberg, 1928</small> *''[[Corophium robustum|C. robustum]]'' <small>Sars</small> *''[[Corophium rotundirostre|C. rotundirostre]]'' <small>Stephensen, 1915</small> *''[[Corophium runcicorne|C. runcicorne]]'' <small>Della Valle, 1893</small> *''[[Corophium salmonis|C. salmonis]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1857</small> *''[[Corophium serraticaudatum|C. serraticaudatum]]'' <small>Ren, 2003</small> *''[[Corophium sextonae|C. sextonae]]'' <small>Crawford, 1937</small> *''[[Corophium simile|C. simile]]'' <small>Shoemaker, 1934</small> *''[[Corophium sinense|C. sinense]]'' <small>Zhang, 1974</small> *''[[Corophium spinicorne|C. spinicorne]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1857</small> *''[[Corophium steinegeri|C. steinegeri]]'' <small>Gurjanova, 1951</small> *''[[Corophium stimpsoni|C. stimpsoni]]'' <small>Shoemaker, 1941</small> *''[[Corophium triangulopedarum|C. triangulopedarum]]'' <small>Hirayama, 1986</small> *''[[Corophium tridentium|C. tridentium]]'' <small>Hirayama, 1986</small> *''[[Corophium tuberculatum|C. tuberculatum]]'' *''[[Corophium uenoi|C. uenoi]]'' <small>Stephensen, 1932</small> *''[[Corophium volutator|C. volutator]]'' <small>(Pallas, 1766)</small> (= ''C. grossipes'' (Templeton, 1836), ''C. longicorne'' Latreille) {{col-end}} ===''Corophium acherusicum''=== '''''C. acherusicum''''' is a small (5&nbsp;[[millimetre|mm]]) species. It is brown with a very short abdomen, and has three little spines on its enlarged second antennae. It has rows of hair on its anterior legs, which it uses to filter food from the water&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=293 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium acherusicum''}}</ref>. It naturally occurs in Europe, but was introduced to harbours of Australia by travelling in the [[ballast water]] of ships&nbsp;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/crust/mov1301t.html |title=''Corophium acherusicum'' |publisher=[[Museum Victoria|Museum Victoria Australia]] |year=1996}}</ref>. ===''Corophium affine''=== '''''C. affine''''' is a small (up to 5&nbsp;mm) species which burrows in bottom sediments, between 10 and 60 metres deep. It occurs on coasts of Northern Europe&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=294 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium affine''}}</ref>. ===''Corophium arenarium''=== '''''C. arenarium''''' may reach 7&nbsp;mm long and looks very similar to ''[[Corophium volutator|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&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=295 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium arenarium''}}</ref>. ===''Corophium bonnellii''=== '''''C. bonnellii''''' is a widespread species which may grow up to 5½&nbsp;mm. It occurs in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and on European and American coasts. The male of this species is not yet known&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=296 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium bonnellii''}}</ref>. ===''Corophium crassicorne''=== '''''C. crassicorne''''' lives in shallow subtidal muddy sand and may grow up to 5&nbsp;mm. ''C. crassicorne'' occurs on American and European coasts from Norway to the Black Sea&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=297 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium crassicorne''}}</ref>. ===''Corophium curvispinum''=== '''''C. curvispinum''''' lives in salt, brackish and fresh water, and may reach 6&nbsp;mm in length. It occurs in the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea and adjoining rivers, and in river systems emptying into the southern Baltic and North Sea&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=298 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium curvispinum''}}</ref>. ===''Corophium heteroceratum''=== '''''C. heteroceratum''''' naturally occurs in Southeast Asia, but was introduced to San Francisco Bay, probably carried in the [[ballast water]] of cargo ships&nbsp;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.calacademy.org/research/izg/SFBay2K/Corophium%20heteroceratum.htm |title=''Corophium heteroceratum'' Yu, 1938 |publisher=[[California Academy of Sciences]] |year=2002}}</ref>. ===''Corophium insidiosum''=== '''''C. insidiosum''''' builds tubes of mud and detritus on weeds, usually in brackish shallow subtidal waters, such as brackish lagoons, ditches and rivers. ''C. insidiosum'' occurs on American and European coasts from southern Baltic to eastern Mediterranean of North and South, and around Japan, and may grow up to 5&nbsp;mm long&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=299 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium insidiosum''}}</ref>. ===''Corophium lacustre''=== '''''C. lacustre''''' lives in nearly fresh water; it is [[white]] and up to 6&nbsp;mm long. It occurs mainly on the Atlantic coast of North America, the North Sea and the Baltic&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=300 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium lacustre''}}</ref>. ===''Corophium multisetosum''=== '''''C. multisetosum''''' may grow to 9&nbsp;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&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=301 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium multisetosum''}}</ref>. ===''Corophium sextonae''=== '''''C. sextonae''''' is 5&nbsp;mm long and builds tubes of mud on algae, from shallow water up to 50&nbsp;m deep. It occurs naturally in [[New Zealand]], but was introduced into [[Plymouth]], [[Devon]] in the 1930s. In the late 1970 it was introduced to [[Ireland]], possibly by natural means from Devon. It can also be found along the European coast from southern Norway to the Mediterranean&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=302 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium sectonae''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-1708 |title=''Corophium sextonae'' |publisher=[[Joint Nature Conservation Committee]]}}</ref>. ===''Corophium volutator''=== {{main|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&nbsp;mm, and can occur in huge quantities: up to 40,000 per [[square metre]] have been observed&nbsp;<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=303 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |year=1999 |chapter=''Corophium volutator''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bofep.org/corophiu.htm |title=Master of the Mudflats |year=1999 |author=J. A. Percy |publisher=Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership}}</ref>. ==References== <div class="references-small"><references/></div> [[Category:Amphipods]]