Chiltonia
Sign in to saveChiltonia is a genus of amphipod crustaceans endemic to New Zealand. Four species are known, three of which live in fresh waters. They were first discovered by Charles Chilton in 1898 and the genus Chiltonia was erected the following year by T. R. R. Stebbing in Chilton's honour.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderAmphipoda
- FamilyChiltoniidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- Family
- Chiltoniidae
- Collections
- WAM, MUSEU NACIONAL/UFRJ, QM
- Recorded in
- Australia, Nova Zelandia
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- ''Chiltonia mihiwaka''
- ''Chiltonia enderbyensis''
- ''Chiltonia rivertonensis''
- ''Chiltonia minuta''
- Australia
- References
Chiltonia is a genus of amphipod crustaceans endemic to New Zealand. Four species are known, three of which live in fresh waters. They were first discovered by Charles Chilton in 1898 and the genus Chiltonia was erected the following year by T. R. R. Stebbing in Chilton's honour.
==Chiltonia mihiwaka== Chiltonia mihiwaka was the first of the species of Chiltonia to be described, when Charles Chilton named it in 1898 as a species in the genus Hyalella. Subsequent taxonomic splits have restricted the name to the populations in the Southland and Otago regions in New Zealand's South Island. Chilton's original material was collected on Mihiwaka, a hill near Port Chalmers, Otago. Adults are approximately long, wide and deep.
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