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(
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FE76FD46C7F301F4" author="Karaman" box="[475,678,678,700]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 27 (1), 29 - 50." type="journal article" year="1981">Karaman, 1981: 39</bibRefCitation>
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)
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—Karaman, 1982: 246.—
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: 171
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.—
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: 9
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.
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<treatmentCitation id="905310D1FFF6FFA4FF49FD04C4EE01B2" author="Stebbing" box="[228,443,740,762]" page="421" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" year="1906">
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: 421
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(part).—
<treatmentCitation id="905310D1FFF6FFA4FDB1FD04C65201B2" author="Gurjanova" box="[540,775,740,762]" page="750" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" year="1951">
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FDB1FD04C78701B2" author="Gurjanova" box="[540,722,740,762]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Gurjanova, E. F. (1951) Bokoplavy morei SSSR i sopredel'nykh vod (Amphipoda-Gammaridea). AN SSSR. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, 41, 1 - 1029. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1951">Gurjanova, 1951</bibRefCitation>
: 750
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(part).—
<treatmentCitation id="905310D1FFF6FFA4FCC5FD04C16D01B2" author="Karaman" box="[872,1080,740,762]" page="41" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" year="1981">
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FCC5FD04C15A01B2" author="Karaman" box="[872,1039,740,762]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 27 (1), 29 - 50." type="journal article" year="1981">Karaman, 1981</bibRefCitation>
: 41
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(part).—Barnard J.L., 1969: 245 (part).—
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<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FEB1FCE2C7700050" author="Barnard" box="[284,549,770,792]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Barnard, J. L. &amp; Barnard, C. M. (1983) Freshwater Amphipoda of the World. Vol. I. Hayfield Associates, Virginia, 830 pp." type="book" year="1983">Barnard &amp; Barnard, 1983</bibRefCitation>
: 664
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–666 (part).
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FF3AFCA5C4670016" bold="true" box="[151,306,837,862]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Type species.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FE94FCA5C4BC0016" box="[313,489,837,862]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Melita gladiosa</emphasis>
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: 185
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.
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. Including the new species described here,
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contains 9 species in the
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Pacific (
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, Lowry 2015, new data):
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FC9DFC6DC6A200ED" box="[816,1015,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. breviarticulata</emphasis>
(
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)
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,
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FB3BFC6DC06100ED" box="[1174,1332,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. denticulata</emphasis>
(
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,
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FF44FC50C4F90080" box="[233,428,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. huanghaiensis</emphasis>
(
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)
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,
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FDE3FC50C70A008F" box="[590,607,944,967]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FDC2FC51C7840080" box="[623,721,945,968]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">japonica</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FD4FFC50C62A0080" author="Nagata" box="[738,895,943,968]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FC3BFC50C1550080" box="[918,1024,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. klitinii</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FBA7FC4FC1330080" bold="true" box="[1034,1126,943,968]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FBDBFC50C05B0080" box="[1142,1294,943,968]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="okhotensis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FBDBFC50C05B0080" box="[1142,1294,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. okhotensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FABAFC4FC0260080" bold="true" box="[1303,1395,943,968]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FA29FC50C4EC00A3" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rotundactyla">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FA29FC50C47000A4" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. rotundactyla</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FE9BFC33C4E400A3" author="Ren" box="[310,433,979,1003]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren, 2012</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FE6BFC34C67300A4" authority="Bulycheva, 1952" authorityName="Bulycheva" authorityYear="1952" box="[454,806,979,1004]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="somovae">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FE6BFC34C71F00A3" box="[454,586,980,1003]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. somovae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FDF6FC33C64800A4" author="Bulycheva" box="[603,797,979,1004]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Bulycheva, A. I. (1952) Novye vidy bokoplavov (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) is Yaponskogo Morya. AN SSSR, Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, 12, 195 - 250. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1952">Bulycheva, 1952</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FCCDFC34C19C00A3" authority="Hirayama, 1987" authorityName="Hirayama" authorityYear="1987" box="[864,1225,979,1004]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="unamoena">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FCCDFC34C6A300A3" box="[864,1014,980,1003]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. unamoena</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FBAAFC33C19500A3" author="Hirayama" box="[1031,1216,979,1004]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Hirayama, A. (1987) Taxonomic studies on the shallow water Gammaridean Amphipoda of west Kyushu, Japan 7. Melitidae (Melita), Melphidippidae etc. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 32, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="1987">Hirayama, 1987</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FB77FC33C0C200A4" author="Bulycheva" box="[1242,1431,979,1004]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Bulycheva, A. I. (1952) Novye vidy bokoplavov (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) is Yaponskogo Morya. AN SSSR, Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, 12, 195 - 250. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1952">Bulycheva 1952</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FF3AFC16C41C0747" author="Hirayama" box="[151,329,1014,1039]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Hirayama, A. (1987) Taxonomic studies on the shallow water Gammaridean Amphipoda of west Kyushu, Japan 7. Melitidae (Melita), Melphidippidae etc. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 32, 1 - 62." type="journal article" year="1987">Hirayama 1987</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FEFAFC16C4B70747" author="Labay" box="[343,482,1014,1039]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Labay, V. S. (2013) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Genera Megamoera Bate, 1862 and Armatomelita gen. nov. Zootaxa, 3700 (1), 65 - 112." type="journal article" year="2013">Labay 2013</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FE43FC17C7D70747" author="Nagata" box="[494,642,1014,1039]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata 1965</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FD22FC17C6550747" author="Ren" box="[655,768,1015,1039]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren 2012</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FCA3FC16C12A0747" author="Tzvetkova" box="[782,1151,1014,1039]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Tzvetkova, N. L. &amp; Kudrjaschov, V. A. (1985) On the fauna and ecology of gammarids (Amphiopoda, Gammaridea) in the biocenoses of the upper parts of the shelf of the south Sakhalin. Biocenoses and fauna of the shelf of south Sakhalin." type="book" year="1985">Tzvetkova &amp; Kudrjaschov 1985</bibRefCitation>
).
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FB39FC17C58C077A" authority="Chevreux, 1911" authorityName="Chevreux" authorityYear="1911" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aculeata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FB39FC17C0400747" box="[1172,1301,1014,1039]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. aculeata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FA8BFC16C584077A" author="Chevreux" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Chevreux, Ed. (1911) Campagnes de la Melita: Les Amphipodes d'Algerie et de Tunisie. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 23, 145 - 285." type="journal article" year="1911">Chevreux, 1911</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FF48FBFBC744077A" authority="Hansen, 1888" authorityName="Hansen" authorityYear="1888" box="[229,529,1050,1074]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="amoena">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FF48FBFBC409077A" box="[229,348,1051,1074]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. amoena</emphasis>
(Hansen, 1888)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FDB0FBFBC664077B" authority="Bate, 1862" authorityName="Bate" authorityYear="1862" box="[541,817,1050,1075]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gladiosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FDB0FBFBC7C8077B" box="[541,669,1050,1075]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. gladiosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FD06FBFAC67F077B" author="Bate" box="[683,810,1050,1075]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Bate, C. S. (1862) Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis], London, 399 pp." type="book" year="1862">Bate, 1862</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FC90FBFBC1D7077A" authority="Montagu, 1813" authorityName="Montagu" authorityYear="1813" box="[829,1154,1050,1075]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obtusata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FC90FBFBC6E9077B" box="[829,956,1050,1075]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. obtusata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FC66FBFAC12F077A" author="Montagu" box="[971,1146,1050,1074]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Montagu, G. (1813) Description of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of The Linnean Society of London, 11, 1 - 26. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1813. tb 00035. x" type="journal article" year="1813">Montagu, 1813</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FB23FBFBC0C9077B" authority="Bate, 1862" authorityName="Bate" authorityYear="1862" box="[1166,1436,1050,1075]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="proxima">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FB23FBFBC05F077A" box="[1166,1290,1051,1074]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. proxima</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FAB5FBFAC0C1077B" author="Bate" box="[1304,1428,1050,1075]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Bate, C. S. (1862) Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis], London, 399 pp." type="book" year="1862">Bate, 1862</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FF65FBDEC746071E" authority="Chevreux, 1900" authorityName="Chevreux" authorityYear="1900" box="[200,531,1085,1110]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="richardi">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FF65FBDEC416071E" box="[200,323,1085,1110]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. richardi</emphasis>
(Chevreux, 1900)
</taxonomicName>
was described only from North Atlantic (Bakir, Sezgin &amp; Katag’an 2009;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FAC4FBDEC5860732" author="Bate" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Bate, C. S. (1862) Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis], London, 399 pp." type="book" year="1862">Bate 1862</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FF72FB81C4DA0731" author="Chevreux" box="[223,399,1121,1146]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Chevreux, Ed. (1911) Campagnes de la Melita: Les Amphipodes d'Algerie et de Tunisie. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 23, 145 - 285." type="journal article" year="1911">Chevreux 1911</bibRefCitation>
; Chevreux &amp;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FD9DFB82C7FF0732" author="Fage" box="[560,682,1121,1146]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Chevreux, Ed. &amp; Fage, L. (1925) Amphipodes. Fauna de France, 9. Lechevalier, Paris, 488 pp." type="book" year="1925">Fage 1925</bibRefCitation>
; Hansen 1888;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FCF1FB82C1260732" author="Jarret" box="[860,1139,1121,1146]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FBD2FB82C07F0731" author="Karaman" box="[1151,1322,1121,1145]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 27 (1), 29 - 50." type="journal article" year="1981">Karaman 1981</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FA9AFB82C58707D5" author="Montagu" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Montagu, G. (1813) Description of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of The Linnean Society of London, 11, 1 - 26. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1813. tb 00035. x" type="journal article" year="1813">Montagu 1813</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FF70FB65C40507D5" author="Sars" box="[221,336,1156,1181]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Sars, G. O. (1895) Amphipoda. An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species, 1, 1 - 711." type="journal article" year="1895">Sars 1895</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FEF1FB64C77907D5" author="Stephensen" box="[348,556,1156,1181]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Stephensen, K. (1944 b) Crustacea Malacostraca VIII. (Amphipoda IV). Danish Ingolf Expedition, 3 (13), 1 - 51." type="journal article" year="1944" yearSuffix="b">Stephensen 1944b</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF6FFA4FF6AFB47C0340788" blockId="18.[151,1437,837,2032]" box="[199,1377,1191,1216]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
<materialsCitation id="A19A3C9DFFF6FFA4FF6AFB47C0340788" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1300093471" box="[199,1377,1191,1216]" location="South Atlantic" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Cape">
Species incertae cedis:?
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FE75FB48C60B0788" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1955" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1955" box="[472,862,1191,1216]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="machaera">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FE75FB48C7320788" box="[472,615,1191,1216]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">A. machaera</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FDDAFB48C6030788" author="Barnard" box="[631,854,1191,1216]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1955). Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum, 43, 1 - 107." type="journal article" year="1955">K.H. Barnard, 1955</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
from
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near
<collectingRegion id="D336F822FFF6FFA4FB2EFB48C1E90788" box="[1155,1212,1192,1216]" country="South Africa" name="Western Cape" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Cape</collectingRegion>
Town, Africa.
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFF6FFA5FF6AFB2BC19602E1" lastPageId="19" lastPageNumber="20" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF6FFA4FF6AFB2BC06F063A" blockId="18.[151,1437,837,2032]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF6FFA4FF6AFB2BC46F07AC" bold="true" box="[199,314,1227,1252]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Diagnosis</emphasis>
(from
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FE20FB2CC7F007AC" author="Jarret" box="[397,677,1227,1252]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
, with additions). Head, anterior lobe rounded, lower margin often with small accessory processes; inferior antennal sinus narrowly notched. Antenna 1 regular, antenna 2 much shorter than antenna 1. Antenna 1, peduncular segment 3 short; accessory flagellum present. Pereon segments without dorsal teeth and denticles. Pleon segments 1–3, postero-dorsal teeth usually present. Urosome 2 with dorso-lateral pairs of teeth, each astride single simple cuspidate seta (Watling type II.A.3) (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FB3CFAB9C078063A" author="Watling" box="[1169,1325,1369,1394]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Watling, L. (1989) A classification system for crustacean setae based on the homology concept. Functional morphology of feeding and grooming in crustacea. AA Balkema, Rotterdam, 15 - 26 pp." type="book chapter" year="1989">Watling 1989</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF6FFA4FF6AFA9CC1A6050F" blockId="18.[151,1437,837,2032]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
Mouthparts regular. Upper lip rounded below. Lower lip regular, inner lobes small, well developed. Mandible, raker setae row with numerous blades (8–14); lacinia 4–5-dentate; palp segment 3 usually longer than 2; segment 1 short, with acute medial process. Maxilla 1, inner plate triangular, tip not attenuated, inner margin with numerous setae; outer plate with 9 apical tooth setae (Watling type
<date id="654C1000FFF6FFA4FCBAFA07C61D06B7" box="[791,840,1511,1535]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">III.1</date>
) (
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF6FFA4FCCDFA07C6AB06B7" author="Watling" box="[864,1022,1511,1536]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Watling, L. (1989) A classification system for crustacean setae based on the homology concept. Functional morphology of feeding and grooming in crustacea. AA Balkema, Rotterdam, 15 - 26 pp." type="book chapter" year="1989">Watling 1989</bibRefCitation>
); palp segment 1 usually with strong lateral setae or without setae. Maxilla 2, inner plate, inner face with oblique or distally submarginal row of numerous setae. Maxilliped, outer plate medium large; palp segment 2 columnar; dactylus medium.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF6FFA4FF6AF9B1C14A04CE" blockId="18.[151,1437,837,2032]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
Coxal plates 1–4 medium to shallow, 1–3 cuspate behind. Coxa 1 variously expanded distally; coxa 4 excavate behind, not deeper than in coxa 3. Pereopod 1 small, little or not sexually dimorphic; basis, antero-distal setae variously developed; merus with a cushion of short setae along posterior margin; carpus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF6FFA4FB6DF978C07605F9" box="[1216,1315,1688,1713]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elongate">elongate</taxonomicName>
; propodus suboval, shorter than carpus. Pereopod 2 (male), carpus short, hind lobe narrow, deep, apex (margin) setose; propodus large, palm oblique, usually toothed, with distinct hinge tooth, inner face with submarginal postero-distal setae cluster, posterior margin strongly setose (3+ clusters); dactylus heavy, often shortened, broad distally or medially, outer marginal setae very weak or lacking, tip obtuse. In female, carpus relatively long but much shorter than propodus, medium deep, with broad posterior lobe; propodus relatively large (smaller than in male), usually slightly broadened distally, palm oblique; dactylus regular, outer margin smooth.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF6FFA4FF6AF871C00904B8" blockId="18.[151,1437,837,2032]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Coxa 6 (female), anterior lobe usually shallow, often subequally bifid, rarely with sexual dimorphism and with elongated anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 slightly smaller than 3. Pereopod 5, basis not grossly smaller than in 6 and 7; in all, bases regularly expanded, hind lobes normal; merus slightly broadened; dactylus typically medium short.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFF77C4000276" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
Pleon plates 1 and 2, hind corners squarish or acuminate, rarely produced; pleon plate 3, hind corner usually produced, acute, upper and lower margins serrate or not serrate. Uropod 1, peduncle with disto-lateral cuspidate setae; rami sublinear, with simple cuspidate setae, often shorter than peduncle. Uropod 2, inner ramus longer than peduncle, outer ramus the shorter. Uropod 3, inner ramus, apex often acute; outer ramous not
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FB7DFEE2C0670253" box="[1232,1330,258,283]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elongate">elongate</taxonomicName>
, terminal segment distinct.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFEA9C72A02CD" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Telson lobes regular, separated to base, each narrowing distally to acute apex, marginal cuspidate setae subapical, set in lateral and medial notches.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFE70C19602E1" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" box="[199,1219,400,425]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Coxal gills 2–5 large, 6 often distinctly smallest. Brood plates elongated or oval-elongated.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFF7FFA5FF6AFE53C6950284" box="[199,960,435,460]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFE53C6950284" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" box="[199,960,435,460]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF6AFE53C4350284" bold="true" box="[199,352,435,460]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Distribution.</emphasis>
Marine waters of boreal part of
<collectingRegion id="D336F822FFF7FFA5FD66FE53C6650284" box="[715,816,435,460]" country="Sri Lanka" name="Northern" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Northern</collectingRegion>
hemisphere.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="59E8654BFFF7FFA5FF6AFE37C46D0548" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFE37C600018C" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF6AFE37C46E02B8" bold="true" box="[199,315,471,496]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Remarks.</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FEE5FE38C75302A7" author="Karaman" box="[328,518,471,495]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 27 (1), 29 - 50." type="journal article" year="1981">Karaman (1981)</bibRefCitation>
resurrected
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FD33FE37C60002B8" box="[670,853,471,496]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melita gladiosa</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FCCEFE38C6B702B8" author="Bate" box="[867,994,471,496]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Bate, C. S. (1862) Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis], London, 399 pp." type="book" year="1862">Bate, 1862</bibRefCitation>
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as the
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species of
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FAA8FE37C413015B" authority="Karaman, 1981" authorityName="Karaman" authorityYear="1981" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FAA8FE37C0C902B8" box="[1285,1436,471,496]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FF3AFE1BC413015B" author="Karaman" box="[151,326,507,531]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 27 (1), 29 - 50." type="journal article" year="1981">Karaman, 1981</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, that had long been synonymized within
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FCB5FE1AC6A2015B" authority="Leach, 1814" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1814" box="[792,1015,506,531]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FCB5FE1AC634015B" box="[792,865,506,531]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melita</emphasis>
Leach, 1814
</taxonomicName>
. The main features of the genus after
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FF3AFDFFC404017E" author="Karaman" box="[151,337,542,566]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 27 (1), 29 - 50." type="journal article" year="1981">Karaman (1981)</bibRefCitation>
were features of structure of maxilla 1 (“inner lobe triangular, with several distolateral setae”), maxilla 2 (inner lobe is provided with dorsal oblique row of sertae), pereopod 2 of male (“segment 6 of gnathopod 2 with distoposterior corner unproduced, dactyl normal”) and uropod 3 (2-segmented outer ramus). In the description of
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FE91FD69C4A001E9" author="Karaman" box="[316,501,649,673]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 27 (1), 29 - 50." type="journal article" year="1981">Karaman (1981)</bibRefCitation>
the genus
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<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FDDEFD68C65F01E9" box="[627,778,648,673]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
included representatives of modern genera
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FB53FD68C0C001E9" box="[1278,1429,648,673]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FB53FD68C0C001E9" box="[1278,1429,648,673]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF3AFD4CC44B018D" box="[151,286,684,709]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Desdimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF3AFD4CC44B018D" box="[151,286,684,709]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Desdimelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FE81FD4DC4E6018C" box="[300,435,685,708]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Megamoera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FE81FD4DC4E6018C" box="[300,435,685,708]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Megamoera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FE6CFD4CC75F018D" box="[449,522,684,709]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FE6CFD4CC75F018D" box="[449,522,684,709]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FDB5FD4CC7DB018D" box="[536,654,684,709]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melitoides" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FDB5FD4CC7DB018D" box="[536,654,684,709]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melitoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FD68FD4CC61B018D" box="[709,846,684,709]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FD68FD4CC61B018D" box="[709,846,684,709]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Quasimelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFD30C49100AB" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FF6AFD30C4B201A0" author="Jarret" box="[199,487,719,744]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield (1996)</bibRefCitation>
changed the diagnosis of the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FCD7FD2FC14401A0" box="[890,1041,719,744]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FCD7FD2FC14401A0" box="[890,1041,719,744]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It was added new main featuresthe dorsal armament of abdomen and structure of pereopod 2 of males: “Pleon segments 1–3, dorsal posterior tooth with single accessory teeth (if present); pleon 3, dorsal teeth often weak or lacking. Urosome 2 with paired dorsolateral cusps, each astride single spine”; “propod large, broadening distally, postero-distal angle produced or toothed, palm strongly toothed, hind margin with few (3–5) setal clusters; dactyl heavy, distally broad, outer marginal setae very weak or lacking”. Thus diagnostic description of the structure of pereopod 2 of males from
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FF3AFC48C49F0088" author="Jarret" box="[151,458,935,960]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret and Bousfield (1996)</bibRefCitation>
is opposite to that from
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FD71FC48C6C20088" author="Karaman" box="[732,919,936,960]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1981) Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita, n. gen. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 27 (1), 29 - 50." type="journal article" year="1981">Karaman (1981)</bibRefCitation>
, but corresponds to the description of the
<typeStatus id="CE498862FFF7FFA5FAC1FC48C0C90088" box="[1388,1436,936,960]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">type</typeStatus>
species of
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FEA0FC2BC4E800AC" box="[269,445,971,996]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gladiosa">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FEA0FC2BC4E800AC" box="[269,445,971,996]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melita gladiosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFC10C483064C" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
Features of the dorsal armament of
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FDF6FC0FC14F0740" authority="Ren, 2012" authorityName="Ren" authorityYear="2012" box="[603,1050,1007,1032]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rotundactyla">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FDF6FC0FC6DD0740" box="[603,904,1007,1032]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita rotundactyla</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FC35FC10C1440740" author="Ren" box="[920,1041,1008,1032]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book" year="2012">Ren, 2012</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FB8BFC10C0220740" authority="Nagata, 1965" authorityName="Nagata" authorityYear="1965" box="[1062,1399,1007,1032]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="denticulata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FB8BFC10C1910740" box="[1062,1220,1007,1032]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A. denticulata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FB79FC10C03A0740" author="Nagata" box="[1236,1391,1007,1032]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FA29FC10C5B50764" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="klitinii" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FA29FC10C5B50764" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A. klitinii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="38B557A9FFF7FFA5FF44FBF3C4110764" box="[233,324,1043,1068]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" rank="species">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF44FBF3C4110764" bold="true" box="[233,324,1043,1068]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
and
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FED0FBF4C7410764" box="[381,532,1043,1068]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="okhotensis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FED0FBF4C7410764" box="[381,532,1043,1068]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A. okhotensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="38B557A9FFF7FFA5FDB0FBF3C72D0764" box="[541,632,1043,1068]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" rank="species">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FDB0FBF3C72D0764" bold="true" box="[541,632,1043,1068]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
indicate that this features is unstable and can not be used as a generic characteristic. With the addition of new species described here, the only stable features of the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FAA8FBD7C0C90718" box="[1285,1436,1079,1104]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FAA8FBD7C0C90718" box="[1285,1436,1079,1104]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are signs of structure of maxilla 1 (inner lobe triangular, with several distolateral setae), maxilla 2 (inner lobe is provided with oblique or distally submarginal row of setae) and pereopod 2 of male (propodus large, palm oblique, usually toothed, with distinct hinge tooth, inner face with submarginal postero-distal setae cluster, posterior margin strongly setose (3+ clusters); dactylus heavy, often shortened, broad distally or medially, outer marginal setae very weak or lacking, tip obtuse).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFAF0C70B0638" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FF6AFAF0C4D40660" box="[199,385,1296,1320]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Ren, X. (2012) Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 43: Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea (II). Science Press, Beijing, 651 pp. [in Chinese]" type="book">Ren (Ren 2012)</bibRefCitation>
described 3 species
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FDD8FAF0C66A0660" box="[629,831,1295,1320]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="breviarticulata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FDD8FAF0C66A0660" box="[629,831,1295,1320]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A. breviarticulata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FCFDFAF0C1400660" box="[848,1045,1295,1320]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="huanghaiensis">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FCFDFAF0C1400660" box="[848,1045,1295,1320]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A. huanghaiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FBFFFAF0C0560660" box="[1106,1283,1295,1320]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rotundactyla">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FBFFFAF0C0560660" box="[1106,1283,1295,1320]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A. rotundactyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF3AFAD3C5B50604" box="[151,224,1331,1356]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF3AFAD3C5B50604" box="[151,224,1331,1356]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. However, these species belong to the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FCB9FAD3C6FE0604" box="[788,939,1331,1356]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FCB9FAD3C6FE0604" box="[788,939,1331,1356]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
on structural features of mouthparts and pereopods 1 and 2 (gnathopods 1 and 2).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AFA9CC46D0548" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
Part of species belonging to the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FD24FA9BC67506DC" box="[649,800,1403,1428]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FD24FA9BC67506DC" box="[649,800,1403,1428]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
according to the list of Lowry (Lowry 2015) excluded from
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF78FA7FC43906F0" box="[213,364,1439,1464]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF78FA7FC43906F0" box="[213,364,1439,1464]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
on a set of morphological characteristics.
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FCE6FA7FC04F06F0" authority="Nagata, 1965" authorityName="Nagata" authorityYear="1965" box="[843,1306,1439,1464]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tuberculata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FCE6FA7FC13C06F0" box="[843,1129,1439,1464]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita tuberculata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FBD4FA40C04406F0" author="Nagata" box="[1145,1297,1439,1464]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
returned to the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FEA5FA23C4040694" box="[264,337,1475,1500]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FEA5FA23C4040694" box="[264,337,1475,1500]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FEDBFA23C7B70694" authority="Nagata, 1965" authorityName="Nagata" authorityYear="1965" box="[374,738,1475,1500]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tuberculata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FEDBFA23C7130694" box="[374,582,1475,1500]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melita tuberculata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FDE0FA24C7B70694" author="Nagata" box="[589,738,1475,1500]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Nagata, K. (1965). Studies on marine Gammaridean Amphipoda of the Seto Inland Sea III. Publication of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 13 (4), 291 - 322." type="journal article" year="1965">Nagata, 1965</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
based on a structure of pereopod 1 and 2 of males (see below: genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF72FA07C47D0548" box="[223,296,1511,1536]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF72FA07C47D0548" box="[223,296,1511,1536]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AF9EBC48305FC" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF6AF9EBC7F7056C" ID-CoL="63ZRG" authority="Griffiths, 1975" authorityName="Griffiths" authorityYear="1975" box="[199,674,1547,1572]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mucronata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF6AF9EBC48A056B" box="[199,479,1547,1572]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita mucronata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FE42F9EBC7CF056C" author="Griffiths" box="[495,666,1547,1572]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Griffiths, C. L. (1975) The amphipoda of southern Africa part 5. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of the Cape Province west of Cape Agulhas. Annals of the South African Museum, 67, 91 - 181." type="journal article" year="1975">Griffiths, 1975</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has a set of characteristics which are not typical for the the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF3AF9CFC47B0500" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[151,302,1583,1608]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF3AF9CFC47B0500" box="[151,302,1583,1608]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: lack of central dorsal tooth on pleon segments 1, 2, and urosome segment 1 with significant development of lateral teeth, the long second segment of the outer ramus of uropod 3 (0.27 times as long as segment 1), aberrant form of the telson. So this species is put as the species incertae cedis:?
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FAA8F997C48705FC" ID-CoL="63ZRG" authority="Griffiths, 1975" authorityName="Griffiths" authorityYear="1975" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mucronata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FAA8F997C45A05FB" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita mucronata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FEB3F97BC49C05FC" author="Griffiths" box="[286,457,1691,1716]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Griffiths, C. L. (1975) The amphipoda of southern Africa part 5. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of the Cape Province west of Cape Agulhas. Annals of the South African Museum, 67, 91 - 181." type="journal article" year="1975">Griffiths, 1975</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AF95FC038040C" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF6AF95FC7D80590" ID-CoL="63ZRP" authority="Gamo, 1977" authorityName="Gamo" authorityYear="1977" box="[199,653,1727,1752]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sexstachya">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF6AF95FC4B40590" box="[199,481,1727,1752]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita sexstachya</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FE59F920C7D00590" author="Gamo" box="[500,645,1728,1752]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Gamo, S. (1977) A new gammaridean Amphipoda, Melita sexstachya sp. nov. from Sagami Bay. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 13, 65 - 71." type="journal article" year="1977">Gamo, 1977</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has a set of characteristics which are not typical for the the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF3AF903C47B05B4" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[151,302,1763,1788]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF3AF903C47B05B4" box="[151,302,1763,1788]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: artricle 3 of mandibular palp with a few long setae only; inner plate of maxilla 1 weakly setose medially; inner plate of maxilla 2 with few facial setae, submarginally positioned (Gamo 1975). According to listing characteristics I include this species to the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FCA7F8CBC6C6040C" ID-CoL="7PX8L" box="[778,915,1835,1860]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FCA7F8CBC6C6040C" box="[778,915,1835,1860]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Quasimelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FC15F8CBC03C040C" ID-CoL="4R277" authority="Gamo, 1977" authorityName="Gamo" authorityYear="1977" box="[952,1385,1835,1860]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sexstachya">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FC15F8CBC194040C" box="[952,1217,1835,1860]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Quasimelita sexstachya</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FB7CF8CCC034040C" author="Gamo" box="[1233,1377,1836,1860]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Gamo, S. (1977) A new gammaridean Amphipoda, Melita sexstachya sp. nov. from Sagami Bay. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 13, 65 - 71." type="journal article" year="1977">Gamo, 1977</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AF8AFC1CC04C4" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF6AF8AFC79E0420" ID-CoL="63ZRM" authority="G. Karaman, 1984" authorityName="G. Karaman" authorityYear="1984" box="[199,715,1871,1896]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="semipalmata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF6AF8AFC4A00420" box="[199,501,1871,1896]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita semipalmata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FE50F8B0C79E0420" author="Karaman" box="[509,715,1872,1896]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1984) Critical remarks to the fossil Amphipoda with description of some new taxa (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 137). Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 30 (No. 4), 87 - 104." type="journal article" year="1984">G. Karaman, 1984</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
excluded from the the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FBB1F8AFC1E60420" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[1052,1203,1871,1896]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FBB1F8AFC1E60420" box="[1052,1203,1871,1896]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
since it refers to the fossil genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FE8EF893C7DE04C4" ID-CoL="7NNV6" authority="G. Karaman, 1984" authorityName="G. Karaman" authorityYear="1984" box="[291,651,1907,1932]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Alsacomelita" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FE8EF893C4E004C4" box="[291,437,1907,1932]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Alsacomelita</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FE11F894C7DE04C4" author="Karaman" box="[444,651,1908,1932]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1984) Critical remarks to the fossil Amphipoda with description of some new taxa (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 137). Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 30 (No. 4), 87 - 104." type="journal article" year="1984">G. Karaman, 1984</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FD3BF893C1C004C4" ID-CoL="C753" authority="G. Karaman, 1984" authorityName="G. Karaman" authorityYear="1984" box="[662,1173,1907,1932]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Alsacomelita" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="semipalmata">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FD3BF893C6EB04C4" box="[662,958,1907,1932]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Alsacomelita semipalmata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FC68F894C1C004C4" author="Karaman" box="[965,1173,1908,1932]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Karaman, G. S. (1984) Critical remarks to the fossil Amphipoda with description of some new taxa (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 137). Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo, 30 (No. 4), 87 - 104." type="journal article" year="1984">G. Karaman, 1984</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF7FFA5FF6AF877C014049C" blockId="19.[151,1437,151,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF6AF877C7DD04F8" ID-CoL="63ZS2" authority="Shoemaker, 1955" authorityName="Shoemaker" authorityYear="1955" box="[199,648,1943,1968]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="valida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF6AF877C4FE04F8" box="[199,427,1943,1968]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita valida</emphasis>
(Shoemaker, 1955)
</taxonomicName>
excluded from the the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FC7BF877C13804F8" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[982,1133,1943,1968]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FC7BF877C13804F8" box="[982,1133,1943,1968]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
since it refers to the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FF3AF85BC481049C" ID-CoL="7PGHJ" authority="Gurjanova, 1934" authorityName="Gurjanova" authorityYear="1934" box="[151,468,1979,2004]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melitoides" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FF3AF85BC458049C" box="[151,269,1979,2004]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melitoides</emphasis>
Gurjanova, 1934
</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF7FFA5FE72F85BC62A049C" ID-CoL="739TW" authority="Shoemaker, 1955" authorityName="Shoemaker" authorityYear="1955" box="[479,895,1979,2004]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melitoides" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="valida">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF7FFA5FE72F85BC7F7049C" box="[479,674,1979,2004]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Melitoides valida</emphasis>
(Shoemaker, 1955)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FC20F85CC1F5049C" author="Jarret" box="[909,1184,1979,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (No. 2), 3 - 74." type="book chapter" year="1996">Jarret &amp; Bousfield 1996</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF7FFA5FB06F85BC060049C" author="Labay" box="[1195,1333,1979,2004]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refString="Labay, V. S. (2014) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett and Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934. Zootaxa, 3689 (3), 237 - 280. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3869.3.3" type="journal article" year="2014">Labay 2014</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="114D36C0FFF0FFA2FF6AFF78C41D0208" blockId="20.[151,1436,151,320]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">
<materialsCitation id="A19A3C9DFFF0FFA2FF6AFF78C41D0208" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1300093464" collectorName="K. H. Barnard" country="South Africa" location="False Bay" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Cape">
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF0FFA2FF6AFF78C4FA03F8" author="Barnard" box="[199,431,151,176]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1955). Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum, 43, 1 - 107." type="journal article" year="1955">
<collectorName id="BC075316FFF0FFA2FF6AFF78C40B03F8" box="[199,350,151,176]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">K.H. Barnard</collectorName>
(1955)
</bibRefCitation>
described from shallow waters of
<location id="142D601BFFF0FFA2FC9CFF77C6CA03F8" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:995B87D6FFF6FFA2FF3AFD80C41D0208:142D601BFFF0FFA2FC9CFF77C6CA03F8" box="[817,927,151,176]" country="South Africa" name="False Bay" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" stateProvince="Cape">False Bay</location>
(
<collectingRegion id="D336F822FFF0FFA2FC03FF78C6BC03F8" box="[942,1001,152,176]" country="South Africa" name="Western Cape" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Cape</collectingRegion>
Town,
<collectingCountry id="69E57650FFF0FFA2FB90FF77C19B03F8" box="[1085,1230,151,176]" name="South Africa" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">South Africa</collectingCountry>
)
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF0FFA2FB71FF77C42D039D" ID-CoL="7X89Q" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1955" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1955" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="machaera">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF0FFA2FB71FF77C0C903F8" box="[1244,1436,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Melita machaera</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF0FFA2FF3AFF5DC42D039D" author="Barnard" box="[151,376,188,213]" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1955). Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum, 43, 1 - 107." type="journal article" year="1955">K.H. Barnard, 1955</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. Lacking of descriptions of mouthparts, of structure of pereopods 3–7 and of coxa 6 of female it can not be accurately attributed this species to somebody of genera of the family. Therefore, this species with great care is refer to the genus
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF0FFA2FDA5FEE4C7CA0255" ID-CoL="7NMF2" box="[520,671,260,285]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Abludomelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF0FFA2FDA5FEE4C7CA0255" box="[520,671,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Abludomelita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, at the base of structure of pereopods 1 &amp; 2:
<taxonomicName id="D6F24D43FFF0FFA2FB12FEE4C4160208" ID-CoL="7X89Q" authority="K.H. Barnard, 1955" authorityName="K.H. Barnard" authorityYear="1955" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="machaera">
<emphasis id="2386EAD2FFF0FFA2FB12FEE4C0070255" box="[1215,1362,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">A. machaera</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="75634B31FFF0FFA2FAC8FEE4C46E0208" author="Barnard" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" refString="Barnard, K. H. (1955). Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum, 43, 1 - 107." type="journal article" year="1955">K.H. Barnard, 1955</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</materialsCitation>
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