Ampithoe cookana
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Ordo: Amphipoda
Familia: Ampithoidae
Genus: Ampithoe
Name
Ampithoe cookana Peart, 2007 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
2 males, 10 females, 4 immature, OUMNH.ZC.2002-24-0081, Beluu Lukes Reef, drop off, 15 m depth; from Melophlus sarasinorum Thiele, 1899 (Porifera: Ancorinidae); 07°17.530'N, 134°30.870'E; leg. S. De Grave & C. Burras, 2 June 2002; 4 males, 7 females, OUMNH.ZC.2002-24-0082, Ngeritaal Pass, from Polycarpa captiosa (Sluiter, 1885) (Ascidiacea: Styelidae), 5 m depth; 07°19.223'N, 134°28.271'E; leg. S. De Grave & C. Burras, 20 May 2002.
Remarks
Present material agrees well with the original description of the species from the Cook Islands (Peart, 2007b) as well as with material from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia by Hughes and Lowry (2009)[2]. Specimens in the current collection from Palau reach a maximum length of 6.5 mm.
Distribution
Australia (New South Wales, Queensland); Palau.
Taxon Treatment
- Myers, A; 2012: Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Palau, Micronesia: Families Ampeliscidae, Ampithoidae, Aoridae, Colomastigidae and Cyproideidae ZooKeys, 193: 1-25. doi
Other References
- ↑ Peart R (2007b) A review of Australian species of Ampithoe Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with descriptions of seventeen new species. Zootaxa 1566: 1-95.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hughes L, Lowry J (2009) Ampithoidae. In: Lowry J Myers A (Eds) Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef. Zootaxa 2260: 153–219.
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