Review of New Zealand Coastal Talitroids with description of three new genera (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata)
Author
Hughes, Lauren E.
0000-0002-5679-1732
l.hughes@nhm.ac.uk
Author
Lowry, James K.
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Zootaxa
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2023-04-18
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5268.1.1
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Bellorchestia quoyana
(Milne Edwards, 1884)
(
Figs. 20–28
,
67
)
Talitrus brevicornis
Milne Edwards, 1840: 15
, 19.
Orchestia quoyana
Milne Edwards, 1840: 15
, 19.—White, 1847: 86.—
Thomson, 1899: 202
.
Talorchestia quoyana
.—
Thomson & Chilton, 1886: 146
.—
Stebbing, 1906: 547
.—
Chilton, 1917: 294
, figs. 1–5b.—
Chilton, 1927: 175
.—
Stephensen, 1935: 11
.—
Stephensen, 1948: 13
.—
Hurley, 1956: 361
, figs. 1–25.—Lowry, 1974: 128, fig. 13.
Bellorchestia quoyana
.—
Serejo & Lowry, 2008: 169
.—
Lowry, 2012: 2
FIGURE 20.
Bellorchestia quoyana
(
Milne Edwards, 1840
)
habitus male, 18.5 mm, NIWA 104072, Ocean Beach, east coast of North Island, New Zealand.
FIGURE 21.
Bellorchestia quoyana
(
Milne Edwards, 1840
)
male, 18.5 mm, NIWA 104072, Ocean Beach, east coast of North Island, New Zealand. Scales, 2 mm.
Types
.
Presumed lost.
Material examined.
A male,
18 mm
, dissected for
SEM
,
AM
P.99366, b female,
25 mm
, dissected for
SEM
,
AM
P.99367, Maketu, North Island, coll. J.C. Wiburd,
25 April 1935
;
23 specimens
(including
15 mm
,
16.3 mm
,
17.5 mm
,
18 mm
,
19 mm
,
20 mm
,
21 mm
,
22.5 mm
,
23 mm
),
AM
P.10842,
Maketu
,
North Island
, coll.
J.C. Wiburd
,
25 April 1935
; many specimens,
AM
P.3413,
Dunedin
,
New Zealand
(
45°52'S
170°30'E
) collector and date unknown
;
2 specimens
, male,
18.5 mm
, dissected (parts in microvial) and female,
16 mm
, not dissected,
NIWA 104072
,
Ocean Beach
, east coast of
North Island
(
35°48′56.412′′S
174°33′34.272′′E
), 0 m,
4 February 1991
(station Z16050)
;
2 specimens
, male, 19/12
th
of and inch, dry pinned,
BMNH
White
3 968.a–b,
New Zealand
;
1 specimen
,
BMNH 1928.12
.1.2430,
Dunedin
,
Donor Stebbing Collection
;
5 specimens
(males
24 mm
,
21 mm
; females
17 mm
,
14 mm
; juvenile
10 mm
)
BMNH
1928.12.1.2431–2435,
Dunedin
,
Donor Stebbing Collection
;
3 females
(
17 mm
,
14mm
,
13mm
),
BMNH
1907.12.2.86–87, sandy shores near
Dunedin
,
Pres. University College Dundee
.
Type
locality.
New Zealand
(no further details)
.
FIGURE 22.
Bellorchestia quoyana
(
Milne Edwards, 1840
)
, SEM, male, 18 mm, AM P. 99366, Maketu, North Island, New Zealand. Scales, A1, 500 µm; A2, 1 mm.
Size.
Males
24 mm
, females
25 mm
.
Remarks.
Historic Stebbing collections from the Natural History Museum, London and more recently collected material of
B. quoyana
from NIWA were compared, and additional illustrations of the species are provided based on the recent collections from the
New Zealand
, North Island.
Habitat. S
upralittoral.
Distribution.
New Zealand
. South Island: Ross Beach; Westland; Waimakariri River, Kaiapoi Beach, Dunedin (
Chilton 1917
,
Hurley 1956
, current study). North Island: Maketu, Ocean Beach (current study).