New species and new records of Ampithoidae (Peracarida: Amphipoda) from Australian Waters
Author
Hughes, Lauren E.
Author
Peart, Rachael A.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3719
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1
102
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3719.1.1
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Paragrubia vorax
Chevreux, 1901
(
Fig. 60
)
Paragrubia vorax
Chevreux, 1901: 427
–431, figs 50–55.—Walker, 1905: 930.—Walker, 1909: 343.—Schellenberg, 1938: 90.—Ruffo, 1938: 173–174, fig. v.—Ruffo, 1969: 63.—J.L. Barnard, 1955: 31–34, fig. 17 (with references).—J.L. Barnard, 1970: 61, fig. 32.—Griffiths, 1973: 278, fig. 5.—Griffiths, 1976: 25 (key).—Ledoyer, 1967: 135, fig. 23.— Ledoyer, 1982: 138–140, fig. 48.— Myers, 1986a: 287.—Myers, 1989: 66.—Myers, 1990: 153.—Myers, 1995: 38.— Myers, 1997: 108.—Appadoo & Steele, 1998: 639.—Appadoo & Myers, 2004: 347–348.—Ren, 2001: 72.—Ren, 2006: 232–234, fig. 89.
Not
P. v o r ax
—Myers, 1985: 33, figs 24–25 (following Ren, 2006, accepted as
P. latipoda
).
Type
locality.
Mahe
,
Seychelle
Islands, Indian Ocean.
Material examined.
Norfolk Island
:
Male
,
11 mm
, dissected, 4 slides, MAGNT Cr017887, Emily Bay (
29°03’48”S
167°57’18”E
),
0–0.25 m
,
18 April 1984
, coll. H.K. Larson;
5 specimens
, MAGNT Cr017888, Emily Bay (
29°03’48”S
167°57’18”E
), depth unknown,
18 April 1984
, coll. H.K. Larson; male,
10.5 mm
, dissected, 3 slides, AM P.90280,’The Wall’ dive site, Nepean
Island
(
29°04’18”S
167°57’41”E
),
10 m
, tufted red and brown algae,
15 May 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 43);
2 specimens
, AM P.81547, ‘The Wall’ dive site, Nepean
Island
(
29°04’18”S
167°57’41”E
),
10 m
, tufted red and brown algae,
15 May 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 43);
1 specimen
, AM P.81546, east of Sail Rock, Phillip
Island
(
29°06’55”S
167°57’31”E
),
10.6 m
, red algae with encrusting fauna,
14 May 2008
, coll. L.E. Hughes (MI NFK 23);
1 specimen
, AM P.81548,
Swiss
Cheese Reef, near Kingston wharf (
29°00’23”S
167°56’50”E
),
15 m
, red algae,
15 May 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 40);
1 specimen
, AM P.81549,
Swiss
Cheese Reef, near Kingston wharf (
29°00’23”S
167°56’50”E
),
15 m
, large pieces of rubble with tufted algae from vertical surface,
19 May 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 77);
1 specimen
, AM P.81550,
Swiss
Cheese Reef, near Kinston Wharf (
29°00’23”S
167°56’50”E
),
12 m
, brown alga
Dictyota
sp.,
19 May 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 78).
Distribution.
Seychelles
Islands (Chevreux 1901); Red Sea (Ruffo 1938; 1969);
Mauritius
(Appadoo & Myers 2004); southern Africa (Griffiths 1973; 1976); South
China
Sea (Ren 2001; 2006); Hawaiian Islands (J.L. Barnard 1970); Society
Island
(Myers 1989); Kosrae (1995);
Cook Islands
(Myers 1990);
Tonga
(Myers 1986b);
Western Samoa
(Myers 1997);
Norfolk Island
(current study).