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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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890
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Byblis liena
sp. nov.
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Fig. 6
Holotype
:
AM
P.27290, female, length unknown.
Australia
,
Queensland
,
E of Lady Elliot Island
,
24°00'S
153°06'30"E
,
475–530 m
,
Australian Museum
party,
17 Nov 1977
, fine grey ooze, sand with pteropod shells (HMAS
Kimbla
stn 1).
Description of
holotype
. Head.
Head
1.4 times as long as deep; rostrum one-fifth length of head, rounded; anteroventral margin with antennal lobe, oblique; eyes weakly pigmented, without cuticular lenses.
Antenna 1
peduncular article 2 2.3 times as long as article 1; article 3 about one-third length of article 2; flagellum of 20 articles; almost as long as antenna 2.
Pereon.
Coxae 1–3
rounded, coxa 1 with setose margin. Pereopods 3, 4 dactylus as long as propodus.
Pereopod 5
basis flexor margin with prominent proximal lobe; extensor margin without plumose setae.
Pereopod 6
basis subcircular, extensor margin with 11 plumose setae.
Pereopod 7
basis posterodistal margin truncate-rounded, reaching almost to distal end of carpus, free anterior margin setose near junction with ischium; merus longer than wide, widest distally; carpus 1.5 times as long as wide, as long as ischium-merus together; propodus linear, 3 times as long as wide.
Pleon.
Epimeron 3
posteroventral margin broadly rounded.
Uropod 1
outer ramus with 4 short robust setae; inner ramus shorter, with 3 short robust setae.
Uropod 2
inner ramus rami subequal; each ramus upper margin with 1 robust seta.
Uropod 3
rami equal, inner ramus with 2 robust setae.
Telson
1.3 times as long as wide, subtriangular, cleft about one-third of length, with pair of long dorsal robust setae; distal margin narrow, bilobed.
Distribution
.
Australia
, southeastern Qld, slope,
475–530 m
(known only from
type
locality).
Figure 6
.
Byblis liena
sp. nov.
, holotype, female, AM P.27290.
Remarks
.
Byblis liena
sp. nov.
lack cuticular lenses and the eye is weakly pigmented. The species shares with
B. tinamba
Poore &
Lowry,
1985
in
Australia
antennae of similar lengths but differs, inter alia, in the shape of the basis of pereopod 7, a more triangular telson and a much longer uropod 3. The triangular telson is unusual but something similar is seen in
B. laterocostatus
Ren, 2006
from
China
.