Amphipoda (Crustacea) from the Chagos Archipelago
Author
Myers, A. A.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3754
1
1
31
journal article
36914
10.11646/zootaxa.3754.1.1
ba5ecbcd-2257-462e-a7e5-312167e67797
1175-5326
285405
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Leucothoe madrasana
Sivaprakasam
(
Figs 15
,
16
)
Leucothoe madrasana
Sivaprakasam, 1969
: 388
, fig. 4. —
Ledoyer, 1972
: 250
, pl. 60. —
Ledoyer, 1978
: 298
. —
Ledoyer, 1979
: 105
. —
Ledoyer, 1986
: 664
, fig. 255. —
Appadoo & Steele, 1998
: 639
.
Material examined
. 1 unsexed, Diego Garcia, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
15.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.053); 4 unsexed, Diego Garcia, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
16.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.054); 1 unsexed, Peros Banhos, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
23.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.055); 3 unsexed, Peros Banhos, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
24.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.056); 6 unsexed, Great Chagos Bank – Eagle Island, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
27.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.057); 6 unsexed, Great Chagos Bank – Eagle Island, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
28.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.058); 5 unsexed, Egmont, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey, 0 1.03.2012 (
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.059);
1 male
,
1 female
, 2 unsexed, Diego Garcia, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey, 0 3.03.2012 (
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.060).
Remarks.
Present material agrees well with the description of
L. madrasana
Sivaprakasam (1969)
from
India
.
Habitat.
Dead branching coral.
Distribution.
India
, Chagos archipelago,
Madagascar
,
Mauritius
.