Transorchestia enigmatica
Description 2
A relatively large (~15 mm) sand hopper. From the Light and Smith Manual,
Pereopods 3 and 4, slender, article 5 abou equal to article 6 length and width; male gnathopod 2 palm slightly concave and dactyl sinuate; male antenna 2 peduncle thick
In Lake Merritt 2
This is a little hopper with a big story! Transorchestia enigmatica was originally described to science based on specimens collected at Lake Merritt by pioneering biologist Jim Carlton when he was a teenager (you can read the original paper at the Biodiversity Heritage Library), along with amphipod expert E.L. Bousfield. Although it is almost certainly an introduced species and it has close relatives in Chile and New Zealand, no other beach hopper known to science looks quite like it, so it is an introduced species that's endemic to Lake Merritt!
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- (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
- (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
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