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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Polycheria atolli
Walker
(
Fig. 21
)
Polycheria atolli
Walker, 1905
: 926
, fig. 88. —
Walker, 1909
: 337
. —
Chilton, 1912
: 502
. —
Schellenberg, 1925
: 157
, fig. 15. —
Pillai, 1957
: 52
–54. —
J.L. Barnard, 1965
: 470
. —
Ledoyer, 1967
: 131
, fig. 13A. —
Ledoyer, 1972
: 205
, pl. 27. —
Griffiths, 1973
: 284
. —
Griffiths, 1974a
: 185
. —
Griffiths, 1974b
: 232
. —
Griffiths, 1974c
: 287
. —
Griffiths, 1975
: 117
. —
Ledoyer, 1979
: 60
. —
Ledoyer, 1983
: 383
, fig. 144. —
Foster, 2008
: 138
, fig. 32.
Polycheria antarctica
. —
K.H. Barnard, 1916
: 211
.
Material examined.
13 females
, Peros Banhos, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
22.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.064);
3 females
, Peros Banhos, outer reef, dead branching coral heads,
10 m
.
C. Head and H. Koldewey,
24.02.2012
(
OUMNH
.ZC.2013.06.065).
Remarks.
Material agrees well with the description of
Walker (1905)
.
Habitat.
Dead branching corals.
Distribution.
Maldives
, Laccadives, Chagos archipelago,
Seychelles
, East Africa,
South Africa
,
Madagascar
,
India
,
Sri Lanka
, Mediterranean.