A review of the scopelocheirid amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea), with the description of new taxa from Australian waters
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Kilgallen, Niamh M.
Australian Museum Research Institute, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
niamh.kilgallen@austmus.gov.au
Author
Lowry, James K.
Australian Museum Research Institute, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2015
2015-03-05
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.8440
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.8440
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Aroui hamatopodus Lowry & Stoddart, 1989
Figure 2
Aroui hamatopodus
Lowry & Stoddart, 1989: 114, figs 2-4. -
Springthorpe and Lowry 1994
: 18. -
Lowry and Stoddart 2003
: 249. -
Berge et al. 2004
: 1719 (table 1).
Type material.
Holotype, male, 7.8 mm, AM P.38460. Paratypes: female, 8.0 mm (with oostegites), AM P.38461; 9 specimens, AM P.38462.
Additional Australian material examined.
New South Wales
: 9 specimens, AM P.43490 [NSW-945]; 1 specimen, AM P.44276 [NSW-946]; 1825 specimens, AM P.44256 [NSW-944], off Wollongong (
34°31.48'S
,
151°13.22'E
), 200 m, baited trap, 27-28 March 1994, J.K. Lowry & K. Dempsey, MV
Robin E
; 8 specimens, AM P.44238, off Wollongong (
34°31.48'S
,
151°13.22'E
), 200 m, baited trap, 28-29 March 1994, J.K. Lowry & K. Dempsey, MV
Robin E
[NSW-962]; 1 specimen, AM P.44452, off Wollongong (
34°32.25'S
,
151°15.16'E
), 300 m, baited trap, 6-7 May 1993, P. Freewater, S.J. Keable & W. Vader, MV
Robin E
[NSW-783]; 23 specimens, AM P.44426 [NSW-801]; 2 specimens, AM P.44437 [NSW-802], off Wollongong (
34°32.53'S
,
151°15.0'E
), 300 m, baited trap, 7-8 May 1993, P. Freewater, S.J. Keable & W. Vader, MV
Robin E
; 4 specimens, AM P.47032, off Wollongong (
34°32.08'S
,
151°12.55'E
), 200 m, baited trap, 7-8 May 1993, P. Freewater, S.J. Keable & W. Vader, MV
Robin E
[NSW-797].
Type locality.
Australia, New South Wales, from stomach of a jackass morwong (tarakihi),
Nemadactylus macropterus
(Forster, 1801), 73-183 m depth.
Depth range.
73-620 m (
Lowry and Stoddart 1989
).
Distribution.
Australia
: North-east of Rowley Shoals, Western Australia; Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, to off Wollongong, New South Wales (
Lowry and Stoddart 1989
, this study).
Figure 2.
Distribution of
Aroui hamatopodus
Lowry & Stoddart, 1989. Star indicates type locality.
Ecology.
Taken in baited traps (this study). Also recorded feeding on dead spatangoids,
Taimanawa mortenseni
Henderson & Fell, 1969 (
Lowry and Stoddart 1989
).