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
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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 setosus Chevreux, 1911
Figures 4
, 5
Aroui setosus
Chevreux, 1911: 170, fig. 3, pl. 7, figs 14-27. -
J.L. Barnard 1958
: 90 (list). -
Belloc 1960
: 6. -
Thurston and Allen 1969
: 356. -
Stroobants 1976
: 239, figs 1-4, 5B, D, F, H. -
Vader 1978
: 127. -
Diviacco and Ruffo 1989
: 476, figs 321, 322. -
Lowry and Stoddart 1989
: 112, fig. 1. -
Barnard and Karaman 1991
: 467. -
Springthorpe and Lowry 1994
: 31. -
Stefanidou and Voultsiadou-Koukoura 1995
: 602 (table 1), 607. -
Bellan-Santini 1998
: 874 (table 3). -
Bellan-Santini and Ruffo 1998
: 900 (table 7). -
Berge et al. 2004
: 1719 (table 1). -
Christodoulou et al. 2013
: table 2.
Type material.
Lectotype, female, 8 mm, MNHN-Am3985. Paralectotypes: female, 7.6 mm, male, 5.8 mm, AM P.35541; 3 specimens, NHM 1912:4:4:5-7; 93 specimens, MNHN-Am900 and Am901; 3 specimens, MOM.
Type locality.
Mediterranean Sea, Algeria, north-east of Cap de Garde (approximately
36°55'N
,
7°47'E
), 65 m depth, 12 June 1904,
Melita
stn 726.
Depth range.
34-80 m (
Stroobants 1976
,
Stefanidou and Voultsiadou-Koukoura 1995
).
Distribution.
Algeria
: off Annaba (
Chevreux 1911
).
Greece
: near Thasos (
Stefanidou and Voultsiadou-Koukoura 1995
).
Italy
: Cagliari; and between Capo Ferato and Torre Corallo, Sardinia (
Stroobants 1976
).
Figure 4.
Distribution of
Aroui setosus
Chevreux, 1911. Star indicates type locality.
Figure 5.
Aroui setosus
Chevreux, 1911. Lectotype female, 8.0 mm, MNHN-Am3985, off
Bone
, Mediterranean Sea. Scales represent 0.1 mm.
Ecology.
Found living on the test of sea urchins (
Spatangus
spp.) (
Chevreux 1911
,
Stroobants 1976
). Also collected from the sponge
Suberites
covering a gastropod shell that housed a hermit crab,
Paguristes
sp. (
Stroobants 1976
).
Discussion.
Stroobants (1976)
designated a neotype for
Aroui setosus
from material collected from Sardinia.
Lowry and Stoddart (1989)
subsequently deemed this to be an invalid act, as original syntype material was available, from which these authors selected a lectotype. See
Lowry and Stoddart (1989)
for a comprehensive synopsis and further discussion.