New and little-known gnathiid isopod crustaceans (Cymothoida) from the northern Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea
Author
N, Jörundur Svava R S S O
Author
Bruce, Niel L.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3380
1
33
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.212640
9d4003d5-3f16-4b86-aa5b-b23dd58a5d36
1175-5326
212640
Gnathia aureamaculosa
Ferreira and Smit, 2009
Gnathia aureamaculosa
Ferreira and Smit,
2009
in
Ferreira
et al
. 2009
: 1067, figs 1A–H, 2A–C, 3, 6A, B, 7A. —
Wilson
et al
. 2011
: 511, figs 1–5, 6F–G.
Material examined.
4 3 (reared), Lizard Island, Queensland,
Australia
,
14.681856°S
,
145.464922°E
, A. Grutter stn m,
1 June 1998
, symbiotic with the fish species
Hemigymnus melapterus
(3 3 MTQ W24856, 1 3
IMNH
2726). 1 3, Lizard Island, off North Point, ‘Washing Machine’,
14.65067°S
,
145.4601°E
,
17 April 2008
, dead coral,
6–8 m
, CReefs stn
CGLI
038, coll. S. Smith (MTQ W14119).
Remarks.
The four reared specimens examined here were reared from larvae collected from the thick-lipped wrasse [
Hemigymnus melapterus
(Bloch, 1791;
Labridae
) by
Grutter
et al
. (2000)
]. These specimens, and the single specimens collected at Lizard Island in 2008 all agree well with the description. The paucity of specimens in the CReefs material suggests that the precise habitat of this species has not yet been located.
Distribution.
Known only from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef.