Photis conchicola

Photis conchicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Amphipoda
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. It often inhabits discarded gastropod shells, which it attaches to marine plants.

Ecology

Predators of P. conchicola include the fish Embiotoca lateralis. The shells used by P. conchicola are chiefly Alia carinata, Tricolia pulloides, Bittium eschrichtii, Amphissa versicolor, Lacuna marmorata and Lacuna unifasciata.

References

↑ John W. Chapman (2007). "Gammaridea" (PDF). In Sol Felty Light; James T. Carlton (eds.). 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.
1 2 3 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. Bibcode:1982JCBio...2..328C. doi:10.2307/1548051. JSTOR 1548051.

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[Chapman-1] John W. Chapman (2007). "Gammaridea" (PDF). In Sol Felty Light; James T. Carlton (eds.). 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.

[Carter-2] 1 2 3 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. Bibcode:1982JCBio...2..328C. doi:10.2307/1548051. JSTOR 1548051.