Photis conchicola

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.^[1] It often inhabits discarded gastropod shells, which it attaches to marine plants.^[2]

Ecology[]

Predators of P. conchicola include the fish Embiotoca lateralis.^[2] The shells used by P. conchicola are chiefly Alia carinata, Tricolia pulloides, , Amphissa versicolor, Lacuna marmorata and Lacuna unifasciata.^[2]

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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. doi:10.2307/1548051. JSTOR 1548051.

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