Maeridae from the Indo-Pacific: Elasmopus, Leeuwinella gen. nov., Maeropsis, Pseudelasmopus and Quadrimaera (Amphipoda: Crustacea)
Author
Hughes, Lauren E.
text
Zootaxa
2015
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Quadrimaera quadrimana
(
Dana, 1853
)
(
Fig. 41
)
Gammarus quadrimanus
Dana, 1853
: 955
.—
Dana, 1855
: pl. 65, fig. 9.
Moera quadrimanus
.—
Bate, 1862
: 194
, pl. 35, fig. 5.
Maera quadrimana
.—
Stebbing, 1906
: 435
(in part).—
Schellenberg, 1938
: 45
, figs 21–22.—
J.L. Barnard, 1955
: 13
.—
J.L. Barnard, 1962
: 99
.—
J.L. Barnard, 1965
: 511
, fig. 17.—
J.L. Barnard, 1970
: 152
, figs. 94–95.—
J.L. Barnard, 1971
: 84
, figs 38–40.—
J.L. Barnard, 1972b
: 107
.—
Sivaprakasam, 1968
: 101
.—
Sivaprakasam, 1970
: 35
.—
Ledoyer, 1972
: 229
, pl. 45.—
Ledoyer, 1978
: 279
.—
Ledoyer, 1979
: 80
.—Ledoyer, 1982: 542, fig. 206.—
Surya
Rao, 1972
: 196
.—
Ortiz, 1978
: 8
.—
Berents, 1983
: 128
, fig. 22.—
Myers, 1985
: 116
, fig. 91.—
Myers, 1995
: 38
.—
Ren, 2012
: 249
, fig. 109.
Quadrimaera quadrimana
.—
Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000
: 195
.—
Lowry & Stoddart, 2003
: 187
(catalogue).
not
Maera quadrimanus
.—
Thomson, 1882
: 235, pl. 17, fig. 4a (=
Maera tepuni
J.L. Barnard, 1972b
).—
Ledoyer, 1986
: 190, fig. 11 (=
Maera miranda
Ruffo, Krapp & Gable, 2000
).
Material examined.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
:
1 specimen
, AM P.82199,
Turks
Reef,
12°06'44"S
,
96°49'43"E
,
3.8 m
, sticks of rubble and algae, coll. L.E. Hughes,
10 October 2008
, MI WA 818;
2 specimens
, AM P.82198,
Turks
Reef,
12°06'44"S
,
96°49'43"E
,
3.8 m
, sticks of rubble and algae, coll. L.E. Hughes,
10 October 2008
, MI WA 818.
Western
Australia
:
6 specimens
,
WAM
C45875, Cassini
Island
, The Kimberley,
13°57'S
12°537'E,
2 m
,
18 October 2010
, coll. Andrew Hosie, Woodside Kimberley Survey 2010, 37/K10-Q1;
4 specimens
,
WAM
C46382, Cassini
Island
, The Kimberley,
13°57'S
125°37'E
,
2 m
,
18 October 2010
, coll. Lee Paterson, Woodside Kimberley Survey 2010, 37/K10-Adhoc;
3 specimens
,
WAM
C47507, Cassini
Island
, The Kimberley,
13°57'S
125°37'E
,
2 m
, coarse coral rubble,
18 October 2010
, coll. Andrew Hosie, Woodside Kimberley Survey 2010, 37/K10-Q1;
12 specimens
,
WAM
C45893, Long Reef, The Kimberley,
13°48'S
125°49'E
,
2 m
,
13 October 2010
, coll. Lexie Walker, Woodside Kimberley Survey 2010, 52/K10-Q3;
4 specimens
, AM P.98056, reef front, south of Tantabiddy, Ningaloo Reef,
21°54'37"S
113°55'42"E
,
9 m
, coarse coral rubble,
12 June 2008
, coll. Neil. L. Bruce and M. Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, MI WA 973, NIN 10c;
5 specimens
, AM P.98057, reef front, south of Tantabiddy, Ningaloo Reef,
21°55'42"E
113°55'11"E
,
13 m
, coarse coral rubble,
17 June 2008
, coll. Neil. L. Bruce and M. Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, MI WA 979, NIN 17a;
4 specimens
, AM P.91143, Ningaloo Reef,
22°39'30"S
,
113°37'05"E
,
6.8 m
,
25 May 2009
, coll. L.E. Hughes, CReefs Ningaloo 2009, NR09-60;
4 specimens
, AM P.91143, Ningaloo Reef,
22°39'30"S
,
113°37'5"E
,
6.8 m
, dead coral head,
25 May 2009
, coll. L.E. Hughes, MI WA 1054;
4 specimens
, AM P.79349, inside of outer Ningaloo Reef, off Neds Camp, Cape Range National Park,
21°59'30"S
,
113°54'30"E
,
2 m
, small brown dictyotalean,
1 January 1984
, coll. R.T. Springthorpe and J.K. Lowry WA 342; many specimens, AM P.83829, Riddell Point, Cygnet Bay, Cape
Leveque
,
16°27'52"S
,
12°31'10"E
,
6.8 m
, coral rubble, filamentous red turfing alga, green alga
Halimeda
sp.,
24 May 2010
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 1102;
1 specimen
, AM P.83830,Riddell Point, Cygnet Bay, Cape
Leveque
,
16°27'52"S
,
12°31'10"E
,
6.8 m
, rubble,
24 May 2010
, coll. J.K. Lowry, MI WA 1105; many specimens, AM P.83832, Riddell Point, Cygnet Bay, Cape
Leveque
,
16°27'52"S
,
12°31'10"E
,
9.3 m
, dead coral
Seriatopora hystrix
,
25 May 2010
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 1125;
4 specimens
, AM P.83833, Riddell Point, Cygnet Bay, Cape
Leveque, 1627
'52"S, 1231'10"E,
9.9 m
, rubble with red coralline algae and sponge,
25 May 2010
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 1126; many specimens, AM P.83831, Riddell Point, Cygnet Bay, Cape
Leveque
,
16°27'52"S
,
12°31'10"E
,
9.8 m
, tuft of red algae,
25 May 2010
, coll. L.E. Hughes, MI WA 1121; many specimens, AM P.83834, Bird Rock, Cygnet Bay, Cape
Leveque
,
16°29'4"S
,
123°35"E
,
12 m
, dead shell bottom,
26 May 2010
, coll. J.K. Lowry, MI WA 1130;
2 specimens
, AM P.83835, Bird Rock, Cygnet Bay, Cape
Leveque
,
16°29'4"S
,
123°35"E
,
10 m
, coarse sediment,
26 May 2010
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 1135;
7 specimens
, AM P.83828, Mission Beach at bar, Cygnet Bay, Cape
Leveque
,
16°27'38"S
,
123°00'40"E
,
7.8 m
, live rock,
24 May 2010
, coll. L.E. Hughes, MI WA 1097.
Queensland: many specimens, AM P.75797 near shore, western side of Hawkesbury
Island
, Torres Strait,
10°21'44"S
,
14°27'4"E
,
8 m
, coral rubble with sponges,
1 October 2006
, coll. J.K. Lowry and M. Capa, QLD 1905;
3 specimens
, AM P.75795, outer reef slope, south of One Tree
Island
,
23°30'47"S
,
15°25'10"E
,
16 m
, red algal tufts,
28 October 2006
, coll. I. Takeuchi and L.E. Hughes, QLD 1992;many specimens, AM P.75796, outer reef, Steves bommie, near Two Trees Islet, One Tree
Island
,
23°29'3"S
,
15°25'27"E
,
13 m
, red coralline alge with epiphytes,
Dictyota
sp. and
Halimeda
sp.,
27 October 2006
, coll. L.E. Hughes and J.K. Lowry, QLD 1977;
1 specimen
, AM P.52786, Middle Reef, North Stradbroke
Island
,
27°24'24"S
,
153°32'00"E
,
18 m
, red algae, brown alga
Zonaria
sp., crinoid, sponge hand collected, on scuba,
4 June 1993
, coll. A.R. Parker, QLD 867.
New South
Wales
: many specimens, AM P.92461, Korffs Islet, Solitary Islands,
30°19'8"S
,
15°39'12"E
, depth unknown, 2002, coll. L.E. Hughes; many specimens, AM P.92460, Muttonbird
Island
, Coffs Harbour,
30°17'S
,
153°10'E
, depth unknown, 2002, coll. L.E. Hughes.
Type
locality.
Fiji
, ~1740'S, 17831'E.
Distribution.
Australia
. Queensland: Lizard
Island
, Torres Strait, North Stradbroke
Island
(
Berents 1983
; Krapp-Schickel 2009; current study). New South
Wales
: Korffs Islet, Muttonbird
Island
(current study). Indian Ocean. Western
Australia
: Cassini
Island
, Long Reef, The Kimberley; Ningaloo Reef (current study).
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
(current study).
Madagascar
(
Ledoyer 1972
,
1983
).
India
(
Sivaprakasam 1968
,
1970
). Pacific Ocean.
Marshall Islands
and
Kiribati
(
Schellenberg 1938
;
J.L. Barnard 1965
).
Fiji
(
Dana 1853
;
Schellenberg 1938
,
Myers 1985
). North Pacific Ocean. Hawaii (
Schellenberg 1938
;
J.L. Barnard 1970
).