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(
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,
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)
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sp.
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, 119, fig. 75
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, fig. 43. ―
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<bibRefCitation id="EFEE4B02E676EB113D25FE49FC2FCDA6" author="Ledoyer, M." box="[792,1003,434,457]" pageId="1" pageNumber="737" pagination="599 - 1112" refId="ref1563" refString="Ledoyer, M. (1986) Crustaces Amphipodes Gammariens Familles des Haustoriidae a Vitjazianidae. de l' Orstom Institut francais de Recherche Scientifique pour le Developpement en Cooperation, Paris, 599 - 1112." type="book chapter" year="1986">Ledoyer, 1986: 822</bibRefCitation>
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, fig. 321.
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,
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;
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, 2.75 mm,
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, 2.4 mm,
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;
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,
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P78884 (SEL/LZI-2-3)
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;
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,
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P78887 (SEL/LZI-2-3); 13 unsexed,
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P78885 (SEL/LZI-2-7)
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.
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locality.
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,
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(~
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113EFBFD68FE9ACEC2" bold="true" box="[198,350,659,685]" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Description.</emphasis>
Based on female, 2.75 mm, AM P78882 and male, 2.4 mm, AM P78883.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113EFBFD41FED4CEBB" bold="true" box="[198,272,698,724]" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Head.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113F21FD41FE9FCEBC" box="[284,347,698,723]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Head</emphasis>
with short rounded rostrum.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113CF7FD41FCC5CEBC" box="[714,769,698,723]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Eyes</emphasis>
large circular, situated on ventrolateral faces of head.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113EAAFD1AFEDCCE95" box="[151,280,737,762]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Antenna 1</emphasis>
with short peduncle, elongate first flagellar article, all flagellar articles slender and long.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113EAAFCF3FEA7CF4E" box="[151,355,776,801]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Mandibular palp</emphasis>
article 3 half the size of 2.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113C8EFCF3FCE3CF4E" box="[691,807,776,801]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Lower lip</emphasis>
with inner lobes.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113A39FCF3FBBDCF4E" box="[1028,1145,776,801]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Maxilla 1</emphasis>
inner lobe with 6 setae, outer lobe narrow, with 2- articulate palp, much longer than outer lobe.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113EFBFCAEFEE1CF00" bold="true" box="[198,293,853,879]" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Pereon.</emphasis>
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shorter than 2, coxa short and partly hidden by coxa 2; carpus widest proximally and weakly tapering distally; merus and carpus with long slender setae posteromarginally; propodus about 57 % of carpus length; dactylus long, falcate, pointed.
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similar in shape to gnathopod 1, but basis and carpus more slender, and propodus relatively longer to carpus (75%).
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113DCBFC32FB61CF8D" box="[1014,1189,969,994]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Pereopods 34</emphasis>
subequal, but coxa 4 wider than 3, carpus to propodus elongate with groups of long slender setae posteromarginally, apex of propodus with long, slender terminal setae, dactylus reduced.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113D41FBECFBEBC85F" box="[892,1071,1047,1072]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Pereopods 57</emphasis>
subequal, coxae with rounded anterior lobe and weakly excavate, oblique ventral margin; basis elongate, narrow, not lobate; merus slender and elongate.
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long.
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with 3 inconspicuous teeth on posterior dorsal margin.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113B1FFB70FA58C8CB" box="[1314,1436,1163,1188]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Pleonite 3</emphasis>
with 3 well developed posterodorsal teeth.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113CA4FB4AFCE0C8A5" box="[665,804,1201,1226]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Epimeron 1</emphasis>
rounded posteroventrally.
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with pointed posteroventral angle.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113FA3FB23FD99C89E" box="[414,605,1240,1265]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Urosomites 12</emphasis>
both with strong medial posterior dorsal tooth.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113A99FB23FADCC89E" box="[1188,1304,1240,1265]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Uropod 1</emphasis>
with long, slender rami, inner ramus longer with terminal article.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113D27FB04FC4FC977" box="[794,907,1279,1304]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Uropod 2</emphasis>
shorter than 1.
<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113A7FFB04FB77C977" box="[1090,1203,1279,1304]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Uropod 3</emphasis>
massive, with stout distally expanded peduncle and unequal rami, outer ramus shorter.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113D95FADEFC37C951" box="[936,1011,1317,1342]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Telson</emphasis>
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roundly excavate apically, with two pointed lobes.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113EFBFA89FEEAC9E3" bold="true" box="[198,302,1394,1420]" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Habitat.</emphasis>
Subtidal, protected beach, rock rubble.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E676EB113EFBFA63FEFBC9DD" bold="true" box="[198,319,1432,1458]" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">Remarks.</emphasis>
This species was described by
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,
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,
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) from
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and
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and agrees very well with the specimens redescribed herein. However, there seems to be some variation in this species.
</paragraph>
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In the material from
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the posterior margin of pleonite 1 is smooth in the specimen described by
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, in the material he illustrated in his 1986 paper there are a pair of small posterolateral pointed processes at this segment. In the
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material the pleonite 1 margin seems to be smooth (
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). The Lizard Island specimens studied herein have a pair of inconspicuous rounded protrusion in this position.
</paragraph>
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Article 3 of the mandibular palp is short in the specimen from
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(
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) and the Lizard Island material. It is long in the material from
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in the description of
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and, most peculiar, both states appear in the illustration of
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from
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BC036F3E676EB113EFBF8B9FB34CBBF" blockId="1.[151,1436,504,2000]" pageId="1" pageNumber="737">
The basis of pereopod 5 seems to be broader than those of pereopods 6 and
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the
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material studied by
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and
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), but not in the New Caledonian material (
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). The author checked the
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material from
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and
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of Ledoyer, in this pereopod 5 is not much broader than the next pereopods and this was similar in the Lizard Island material studied here.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E675EB123EAAF879FEDECBF5" bold="true" box="[151,282,1922,1946]" pageId="2" pageNumber="738">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E675EB123F1CF879FD9ACBF6" box="[289,606,1922,1945]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="738">Melphisana madagascarensis</emphasis>
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, female, 2.75 mm, AM P78882, Palfrey Island, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E674EB133EAAF84EFEDECBA2" bold="true" box="[151,282,1973,1997]" pageId="3" pageNumber="739">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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, female, 2.75 mm, AM P78882, habitus and some parts from male, 2.4 mm, AM P78883, Palfrey Island, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef.
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So there seem to be no character pattern that would allow us to separate the three populations occurring in
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,
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and Lizard Island. The only consistent difference between the
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material and the Pacific material seems to be the posteroventral corner of pleonite 3 which is somewhat more pointed in the
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material than in the
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and Lizard Island specimens.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAE1E673EB143EFBFEC9FEA3CD23" bold="true" box="[198,359,306,332]" pageId="4" pageNumber="740">Distribution.</emphasis>
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.
</emphasis>
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: Lizard Island (current survey).
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.
</emphasis>
Outer reef of Tuléar lagoon (
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).
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.
</emphasis>
Îlot Maître (
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).
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