New Australian Species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and Eastern Australia with a Key to Australian Species
Author
Poore, Gary C. B.
Museums Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia
Author
Lowry, James K.
Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia (deceased 4 November 2021)
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Records of the Australian Museum
2023
Rec. Aust. Mus.
2023-12-06
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4
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890
journal article
10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890
2201-4349
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Ampelisca euroa
Lowry & Poore, 1985
Ampelisca euroa
Lowry & Poore, 1985: 273–278
, figs 13, 14.
Material examined
.
NMV
J71740–71742
,
3 specimens
,
Australia
,
Queensland
,
1 km
E of Yorke Island
,
Torres Strait
,
09.8°S
143.4°E
,
41 m
(ASB-1 stns)
;
NMV
J71744–71747
,
7 specimens
, N side of
Noddy Reef
,
13.6°S
143.8°E
,
42 m
(ASB-2 stns)
;
NMV
J71748
,
1 specimen
, N of
Green Island
,
16.7°S
145.9°E
,
52 m
(ASB-3 stn)
;
NMV
J71749–71755
,
12 specimens
, N end of
Hervey Bay
, off
Burnett Heads
,
24.5°S
152.8°E
,
46–49 m
(ASB-5 stns)
.
Distribution
.
Australia
,
Queensland
(
9°S
) to
South Australia
, shelf and bays,
3–
176 m
.
Remarks
.
Ampelisca euroa
is distinguished from other
Australian
species in the broad second article of the mandibular palp and the absence of a tooth on coxae 1–3.
The
species is the commonest and most widespread species of
Ampelisca
in eastern
Australia
.
It
occurs on the shelf of
South Australia
and throughout
Bass Strait
; its northern and eastern distribution is here expanded from
New South Wales
to
Torres Strait
,
Queensland
(
9°S
)
.