Amphipoda from marine caves of Hong Kong Island
Author
Horton, Tammy
text
Journal of Natural History
2008
2008-03-31
42
9 - 12
825
854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930701860124
journal article
10.1080/00222930701860124
1464-5262
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Podocerus hanapepe
Barnard, 1970
Podocerus hanapepe
Barnard 1970: 240
, figs 158–159;
Ledoyer 1972: 266
, pl. 73;
Myers 1985: 60
, figs 45–46.
Material examined
Cape d’Aguilar
,
Hong Kong Island
,
on
Gelidium pusillum
,
11 males
,
18 females
, six juveniles NHM Reg. Nos. 2005.24–33
.
Remarks
Males, females and juveniles of this species were collected from
Gelidium pusillum
on the rocky shore of Cape d’Aguilar. It can be distinguished from
Podocerus cluspiclunis
sp. nov.
by the lack of dorsal carination, stout antennae, and the acute elongate process on the merus of male gnathopod 2. This species has previously been recorded from Hawaii on
Pocillopora
(
Barnard 1970
)
, from
Madagascar
(
Ledoyer 1972
) and from
Fiji
amongst red algae,
Halimeda
,
Sargassum
and coral debris on the reef crest in regions of strong current (
Myers 1985
).