Maeridae from the Indo-Pacific: Elasmopus, Leeuwinella gen. nov., Maeropsis, Pseudelasmopus and Quadrimaera (Amphipoda: Crustacea)
Author
Hughes, Lauren E.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4059
2
201
256
journal article
39226
10.11646/zootaxa.4059.2.1
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Quadrimaera micheli
Appadoo & Myers,
2002
in
Appadoo, Myers & Fagoonee, 2002
(
Figs 39
,
40
)
Quadrimaera micheli
Appadoo & Myers,
2002
in
Appadoo
et al.
, 2002
: 643
–646, figs 1, 2.?
Quadrimaera inaequipes
.—Ledoyer, 1982: 527–529, figure 198.
Material examined.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
:
1 male
,
5.6 mm
, dissected, 4 slides, AM P.98053, dive site ‘Winter Wall’, near Horsburgh
Island
,
12°05'15"S
,
96°50'14"E
,
8 m
, rubble and green calcareous alga
Halimeda
sp.,
12 October 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry, MI WA 836;
1 specimen
, AM P.98054, dive site ‘Winter Wall’, near Horsburgh
Island
,
12°05'15"S
,
96°50'14"E
,
8 m
, rubble and green calcareous alga
Halimeda
sp.,
12 October 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry, WA 836;
1 female
, dissected, 4 slides, AM P.98055, dive site "Surf Shack Drift", western side of West
Island
,
12°9'S
,
96°48'E
,
10 m
, rubble with epiphytes,
15 October 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry and L.E. Hughes, MI WA859;
2 specimens
, AM P.82194, dive site ‘Winter Wall’, near Horsburgh
Island
,
12°5'15"S
,
96°50'13"E
, coral rubble,
12 October 2008
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 835;
1 specimen
, AM P.82195, northern side of Direction
Island
,
12°5'4"S
,
96°52'54"E
, fine sediment,
8 October 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry and K.B. Attwood, MI WA 784;
1 specimen
, AM P.82197, centre of lagoon, 128°'49"S,
96°51'13"E
,
Acropora
sp. coral dead with red epiphytic algae,
14 October 2008
, coll. K.B. Attwood and L.E. Hughes, MI WA 845;
1 specimen
, AM P.82196, north east corner of the lagoon,
12°6'17"S
,
96°51'11"E
, seagrass base and stems based covered in epiphytes, seagrass beds
Thalassia hemprichii
,
10 October 2008
, coll. J.K. Lowry MI WA 810;
2 specimens
, AM P.82193, dive site "Two Trees", western side of West
Island
,
12°9'34"S
,
96°48'59"E
,
15 October 2008
, coral
Acropora
sp. plate rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes and K.B. Attwood, MI WA 854.
FIGURE 37.
Quadrimaera metinaro
Hughes, 2015
, a male 4.6 mm, AM P. 92527; b male 4 mm, AM P.92527; c female 4.2 mm, AM P. 92528, south end of McCluer Island, Northern Territory, scales 0.1 mm.
FIGURE 38.
Quadrimaera metinaro
Hughes, 2015
male 4.6 mm, AM P. 92526, south end of McCluer Island, Northern Territory.
FIGURE 39.
Quadrimaera micheli
Appadoo & Myers, 2002 b
male, 5.6 mm, AM P.98053, dive site ‘Winter Wall’, near Horsburgh Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, scales, 0.1 mm.
Western
Australia
:
1 male
,
6.5 mm
, dissected, 3 slides, AM P.91142, Shenton Bluff, Cape
Leveque
, Cygnet Bay,
16°28'38"S
, 123°02'38E,
5.1 m
, green calcareous alga
Halimeda
sp.,
22 May 2010
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 1076;
1 female
specimen (damaged gnathopods), AM P.91141, Shenton Bluff, Cape
Leveque
, Cygnet Bay,
16°28'38"S
, 123°02'38 E,
5.1 m
, green calcareous alga
Halimeda
sp.,
22 May 2010
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 1076.
Type
locality.
La Cuvette,
Mauritius
,
20°00'S
,
57°34.2'E
.
Remarks.
These records extend the distribution of
Q. micheli
further east into the Indian Ocean, from
Mauritius
to
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
and Western
Australia
.
Distribution.
Indian Ocean:
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
(current study). Western
Australia
: Cygnet Bay (current study).
Mauritius
(
Appadoo
et al.
2002
).?
Madagascar
(Ledoyer 1982).