Amphipoda (Crustacea) from the Chagos Archipelago
Author
Myers, A. A.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3754
1
1
31
journal article
36914
10.11646/zootaxa.3754.1.1
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1175-5326
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Eusiroides diplonyx
Walker
Eusiroides diplonyx
Walker, 1909
: 333
, pl. 4, fig. 22. —Pirlot, 1936: 302, figs 126–128. —
Schellenberg, 1938
: 35
. —
Barnard, 1970
: 109
, figs 59–61. —
Ledoyer, 1972
: 205
, pls 28–29. —
Ledoyer, 1978
: 266
. —
Ledoyer, 1979
: 60
. —Myers, 1985, 66, figs 49–50.
Material examined.
3 unsexed, Great Chagos Bank – Eagle Island, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
27.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.066); 1 unsexed, Great Chagos Bank – Eagle Island, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
28.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.067);
1 male
,
2 females
, Great Chagos Bank – Eagle Island, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
28.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.068);
1 male
,
1 female
, Great Chagos Bank – Eagle Island, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
29.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.069); fragments. Egmont, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey, 0 1.03.2012 (
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.070).
Remarks.
Material agrees well with the description of
Walker (1909)
.
Habitat.
Dead branching corals.
Distribution.
IndoPacific.