A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078
Author
White, Kristine N.
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Zootaxa
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3078.1.1
journal article
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Anamixis cavatura
(
Thomas, 1997
)
Anamixis hanseni
Pearse, 1912: 370
. —
Thomas, 1979: 107–109
. —
Thomas & Taylor, 1981: 462–467
, figs 1–5. —
Thomas & Barnard, 1983: 154–157
(not
Stebbing 1897
).
Leucothoides pottsi
Shoemaker, 1933a: 249–251
, fig. 3. —
Ledoyer 1967a: 127
, fig. 5b. —
Ruffo, 1969: 12
, 13. —
Sivaprakasam, 1967
(
1969
): 373, figs 1E–G. —
Ledoyer, 1978b: 375
. —
Ledoyer, 1978a: 300
, 301. —
Ledoyer, 1979a: 169
. —
Ledoyer, 1979b: 111
, fig. 68(II). —
Thomas, 1979: 107–109
. —J.L.
Barnard, 1979: 130
.
Anamixis pottsi
.
—
Ortiz & Lemaitre, 1994: 124
.
Anamixis cavatura
Thomas, 1997: 47–50
, figs 3, 4. —
White, 2011: 25
, fig.1.
Type locality and specimens.
Carrie Bow Cay
,
Belize
.
Holotype
, anamorph male,
2.39 mm
,
USNM 253729
;
paratypes
, anamorph male,
4.60 mm
,
USNM 253730
, leucomorph male,
4.41 mm
,
USNM 253732
, leucomorph female,
3.28 mm
,
USNM 253733
.
Material examined.
5 anamorph males (
JDT
Bel 06–3B). Diagnosis based on description by
Thomas (1997)
.
Diagnosis.
Distal triangular locking process on gnathopod 2 basis; 3–5 prominent cusps on propodus; tuberculate dactylus.
Leucomorph
(juvenile/sexually dimorphic characters).
Male
or female. Head anterior margin truncate, anterodistal margin quadrate. Ventral cephalic keel anterior margin transverse. Gnathopod 1 carpus length 12.5 x width, proximal margin dentate, with multiple setae/spines and terminal serrate blades; dactylus very short. Gnathopod 2 carpus 0.5 x propodus length, straight, distally truncate; propodus palm sub-rectangular; dactylus reaching 0.5–0.7 x propodus length. Uropods 1–3 relative lengths 1.0: 0.7: 0.9.
Habitat.
Among coral rubble;
1–5 m
.
Host.
Small asconoid sponges and colonial ascidians, especially
Ecteinascidia turbinata
Herdman, 1880
.
Distribution.
Western Atlantic Ocean: Ft. Pierce to the Florida Keys, Florida (
Shoemaker 1933
;
Thomas 1979
;
Thomas & Taylor 1981
). Gulf of Mexico: Mississippi Delta to Tampa, FL (
Pearse 1912
). Caribbean Sea: Yucatan,
Belize
,
Honduras
,
Jamaica
,
The Bahamas
, Greater and Lesser Antilles,
Panama
(
Thomas & Barnard 1983
;
Ortiz & Lemaitre 1994
;
White 2011
).