Two new species of sand-burrowing amphipods of the genus Haustorius Müller, 1775 (Amphipoda: Haustoriidae) from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico
Author
Hancock, Zachary B.
Author
Wicksten, Mary K.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-08-14
4459
1
101
127
journal article
29034
10.11646/zootaxa.4459.1.4
08b39b2c-80d7-4294-b5fc-c53d42b27030
1175-5326
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Haustorius jayneae
Foster & LeCroy, 1991
Haustorius jayneae
,
Foster & LeCroy, 1991
: 259
–270, figs. 1–4.
Haustorius
new species
, Saloman & Naughton, 1977: 359– 352.
Haustorius
species, Saloman & Naughton, 1977: 67–68.
Diagnosis.
Antenna 1, flagellum with 9 articles, accessory flagellum with 4–5 articles; antenna 2 with 10 articles; mandible incisor bifid, with 8–10 accessory blades; mandibular palp, article 3 with 17 spines in comb row; maxilla 2, outer plate lunate, narrowing distally to a slight point; maxilliped, outer plate broad, anterior angle obtuse with toothlike spines on 1/4 length of oral margin; coxa 1 deeper than wide; pereopod 3 article 5 posterior lobe greater than 1.2x length of anterior margin; pereopod 6, article 4 posterior margin distinctly rounded distally with 4 large spines; pereopod 7, article 5 subrectangular with proximal and distal margins parallel, posterior margin 1/2 length of anterior, with spines 1/2 length of distal margin; uropod 1, peduncle with 1–3 proximal spines, 2–3 interramal spines, 1–3 distal setae; telson without posterodistally produced region, posterior margin relatively flat, acutely cleft.
Range.
Carrabelle Beach, Florida to Mississippi Sound.
Remarks
.
Sweet (1996)
identified two new haustorius-like species west of the Mississippi River in Pass Christian, MS, Dauphin Island, AL, and Carrabelle Beach, FL. However, we located only
Lepidactylus triarticulatus
at Pass Christian and
H. jayneae
at the latter locations. This represents a range extension for
H. jayneae
southward from Cape San Blas, its original southern range, to at least Carrabelle Beach, where it was found in considerable numbers.