Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Palau, Micronesia: Families Melphidippidae, Oedicerotidae, Photidae, Pleustidae, Podoceridae, Stenothoidae, Synopiidae and Talitridae
Author
Myers, A. A.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3811
4
535
552
journal article
45581
10.11646/zootaxa.3811.4.6
4dd915eb-fdd0-4371-a1cf-4f7ea9648460
1175-5326
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Tepidopleustes barnardi
(
Ledoyer, 1972
)
(
Figs 8
,
9
)
Parapleustes barnardi
Ledoyer, 1972
: 262
, figs 70, 71.—
Ledoyer, 1986
: 913
, 360.
Material examined.
1 female
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2002.24.130) Ngeritaal Pass, from
Carijoa
sp. (
Alcyonacea
:
Clavulariidae
),
5 m
depth;
07°19.223'N
,
134°28.271'E
; leg. S.
De
Grave & C. Burras,
20 May
2002.1 male (
OUMNH
.ZC.2002.24.131) outside Risong, rubble tray left for 10 days, seagrass (nearly intertidal);
07°17.917'N
,
134°28.560'E
; leg. S.
De
Grave & C. Burras,
2 June 2002
;
1 female
,
1 juvenile
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2002.24.132) Kaibaku Tunnel, bait trap inside tunnel,
2 m
depth:
07°19.47'N
,
134°29.42'E
; leg. S.
De
Grave & P. Colin, night
30th – 31st May 2002
.;
1 juvenile
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2002.24.133) Siaes Tunnel, inside tunnel, from
Leucetta
sp. (Porifera:
Leucettidae
),
35 m
depth;
07°18.690'N
,
134°13.605'E
; leg. S.
De
Grave & P. Colin,
31 May 2002
.
Remarks.
Present material agrees well with the description of
Ledoyer (1972)
.
Distribution.
Madagascar
(
Ledoyer 1972
,
1986
);
Palau
(present study).