Tanaidaceans from Brunei, IV. The Families Kalliapseudidae, Pagurapseudopsidae, Parapseudidae and Apseudidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha), with descriptions of a new genus and six new species
Author
Bamber, Roger N.
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Zootaxa
2013
3734
4
401
441
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3734.4.1
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Phoxokalliapseudes gobinae
(Bamber, 1999)
Kalliapseudes (Kalliapseudes) gobinae
Bamber 1999
, 181–184, figs 8–9. Bamber & Sheader 2005, 287 (partim).
Phoxokalliapseudes gobinae
Drumm
&
Heard
2011, 38–43, figs 22–24. Bamber
et al
. 2012, 87.
Material
:
1♂
, Sample BU3; 2♀♀ (one with oostegites), Sample B12; 2♀♀ (one brooding), Sample B13; all Station B,
04°51′06"N
114°35′26"E
,
20 m
depth, sand. 5♂♂, 4 brooding ♀♀, 9 neuters, sample DA1; 2♂♂, 2♀♀ (one brooding), sample DA2; both Station DA,
05°54′28.5"N
114°38′23.3"E
,
20 m
depth, sand.
6♀♀, 1 neuter, Station S14,
04°42′39"N
114°26′24.6"E
,
12.7 m
depth, sand. 3♀♀, Station S18,
04°41′30"N
114°27′13.5"E
,
7.5 m
depth, sand. 1♀, Station S17,
04°41′13"N
114°27′23"E
,
6.5 m
depth, sand. All coll.
March 2009
.
2 specimens
,
05°21′25"N
111°26′30"E
;
1 specimen
,
05°21′08"N
111°26′25";
4 specimens
,
05°20′58"N
111°26′15"E
;
1 juvenile
, 1 manca,
05°20′53"N
111°26′21"E
; 3♀♀ (1 brooding),
1 subadult
♂,
1♂
,
2 juveniles
,
05°20′17"N
111°27′06"E
. All
ca
90 m
depth, coll.
September 2009
.
1 specimen
,
05°22′10"N
111°27′00"E
;
2 specimens
,
05°21′51"N
111°27′18"E
;
3 specimens
,
05°21′59"N
111°27′07"E
; 2♀♀,
05°22′14"N
111°27′04"E
;
3 specimens
,
05°22′02"N
111°26′52"E
;
3 specimens
,
05°22′14"N
111°26′52"E
;
1 specimen
,
05°21′56"N
111°27′22"E
;
3 specimens
,
05°21′44"N
111°27′22"E
;
2 specimens
,
05°21′44"N
111°27′11"E
;
5 specimens
,
05°22′21"N
11°27′30"E
; 1♀,
1 juvenile
,
05°22′44"N
111°27′52"E
;
4 specimens
,
05°20′17"N
111°27′06"E
;
1 specimen
,
05°22′42"N
111°28′46"E
. All
ca
70 m
depth, coll.
March 2012
.
Remarks
:
Phoxokalliapseudes gobinae
is relatively widespread off the South
China
Sea coasts of
Brunei
and Sabah (Bamber 1999; Bamber & Sheader 2005), in the latter case sympatric with
Kalliapseudes bamberi
Drumm
&
Heard
, 2011, and is a dominant member of the macrobenthos (see Introduction). The present material extends its known depth range to from
6.5 to
90 m
.
As this species was relatively common, all the samples were analyzed for their population structure, along with data from the
type
collection (Bamber 1999), collected at
60 m
off
Brunei
.
At
20 to 90 m
, densities were 7–11 individuals m -2. Densities in shallower-water samples were sparser, ranging from zero to 4 individuals m -2.
Males and breeding females (females with either oostegites or brood pouches) were absent at stations shallower than
20 m
.
The male:female sex ratio at depths from
20 to 90 m
ranged from 0.7 to 1.1, not significantly different from 1:1. Bamber
et al
. (2009) found a 1:1 sex ratio in
Cristapseudes omercooperi
(Larwood, 1954)
in the Eastern Mediterranean; conversely, BłaŻewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber (2012) found a male:female ratio of 0.4 for
Kalliapseudes obtusifrons
(Haswell, 1882)
in the Bass Strait,
Australia
.
Analysis of the variance and mean of sample densities was used to determine the common dispersion parameter (
k
) of the negative binomial distribution [
k
=
m
2/(
s
2-
m
), where
m
is the mean and
s
2 the variance]. The densest populations, at
20 m
depth, showed a highly aggregated distribution (
k
= 0.22; 1/
k
>0); populations shallower than
20 m
showed an even distribution (
k
= -0.3 to -0.4; 1/
k
<0), albeit based on sparse data; populations deeper than
20 m
showed a random distribution (
k
= -1.4 to -2.5; 1/
k
≈0).
Bamber &
Marshall
(in press) discussed the instability of the shallower inshore seabed off
Brunei
, which was attributed to physical disturbance from wave action, probably coupled with a greater input of organic matter below the wave-base. Total tanaidacean densities from
2 to 13 m
depth were between one half and one-quarter of the average at
20 m
depth.
Phoxokalliapseudes gobinae
thus appears to be widespread and breeding at depths from
20 m
and deeper, while its occurrence in the less stable sediments in shallower waters is sparser, involving nonreproductive individuals.