''Megalorchestia'' is a genus of sand-hoppers in the family

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 ...

. The genus was erected by the German naturalist

Johann Friedrich von Brandt Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian natural history, naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia. Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a Gymnasium (school), gymnasium in Wittenberg and the Humboldt ...

in 1851 and the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

is ''

Megalorchestia californiana ''Megalorchestia californiana'' is a species of sand-hopper in the family Talitridae. It was first described in 1851 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich von Brandt and is the type species of the genus '' Megalorchestia''. It is commonly kn ...

''.

Species

The

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includes the following species in the genus:- * '' Megalorchestia benedicti'' (Shoemaker, 1930) * ''

'' Brandt, 1851 * '' Megalorchestia columbiana'' (Bousfield, 1958) * '' Megalorchestia corniculata'' (Stout, 1913) * '' Megalorchestia dexterae'' Bousfield, 1982 * '' Megalorchestia minor'' (Bousfield, 1957) * '' Megalorchestia pugettensis'' (Dana, 1853)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4478422 Talitrida Amphipod genera