A New Species of the Amphipod Melita Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae for the Azov-Black Sea Basin
Journal: Russian Journal of Biological Invasions
Year: 2022

Amphipods of the genus Melita (Melitidae, Amphipoda) were found in the Kerch Strait (Black Sea) in September 2019 and March, July, and November 2020. The material was collected in the formations formed by the polychaete Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923). The depth ranged from 0.1 to 0.2 m. The individuals found in this site do not belong to the species Melita palmata (Montagu, 1804) known in the Black Sea, but they correspond to the morphological characters of the genus Melita. The species