Ischyroceridae *
Author
Just, Jean
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-10-08
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https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2260.1.27
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.27
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Ambicholestes
(
Ambicholestes
)
magellani
(
Just, 1984
)
(
Fig. 4
)
Caribboecetes magellani
Just, 1984: 57
, figs 1C, 16, 17.
Ambicholestes
(
Ambicholestes
)
magellani
. —
Just, 1998: 32
.
Material examined.
2 females
, Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, base of bommies, off Research Point, Lizard Island,
8 m
.
Type
locality.
Mactan Island
,
Cebu
,
The
Philippines
.
Habitat.
Coarse sand and coral rubble in
3–33 m
depth. Like most other siphonoecetines
Ambicholestes magellani
occupies foreign objects such as empty mollusc shells (
Fig. 4
) or polychaete tubes, to the front end of which they add a short tube of fine sand and/or coarse shell debris.
Remarks.
Just (1998)
reported
Ambicholestes magellani
from various localities along the Great Barrier Reef from Lizard Island in the north to Heron Island in the south. The species was not found during the present survey. Only
Ambicholestes magellani
and
A. trilobatus
Just, 1998
(Elizabeth Reef, north of Lord Howe Island,
Tasman
Sea) have the anterior margin of the basis of gnathopod 2 lobate. Males as well as females of
Ambicholestes magellani
differ from
A. trilobatus
as follows: gnathopod 2 basis with two lobes (three lobes in
A. trilobatus
), frontal margin of head broadly rounded in dorsal view (with long, acute rostrum), pleosome and urosome dorsally smooth (densely covered with long and short setules).
Distribution
.
Australia
.
Queensland
: Great Barrier Reef (
Just, 1998
).
The
Philippines
:
Cebu
(
Just, 1984
).