''Bellorchestia marmorata'' is a marine

amphipod Amphipoda () is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 10,700 amphipod species cur ...

in the

Talitridae Talitridae is a family of amphipods. Terrestrial species are often referred to as landhoppers and beach dwellers are called sandhoppers or sand fleas. The name sand flea is misleading, though, because these talitrid amphipods are not siphonapte ...

family. It was first described in 1880 by

William Aitcheson Haswell William Aitcheson Haswell (5 August 1854 – 24 January 1925) was a Scottish-Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal. His zoological author abbreviation is Haswell. Early life Haswell was born at Gay ...

as ''Talorchestia marmorata'', was also described by Thomas Roscoe Rode Stebbing in 1906 as ''Orchestia marmorata'', and in 2008 was reassigned to the genus, '' Bellorchestia''. It is found only in the supralittoral zones of Tasmania's coastlines.

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''Bellorchestia marmorata'' images & occurrence data
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