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Podosirus Bellan-Santini 2007

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Description

Podosirus Bellan-Santini, 2007

Podosirus Bellan-Santini, 2007: 569.

Type species. Podosirus spinosa Bellan-Santini, 2007 (lapsus calamus), Podosirus vaderi Bellan-Santini, 2007 selected here.

Included species. Podosirus includes 1 species: P. vaderi Bellan-Santini, 2007.

Diagnosis. With the characters of the family.

Remarks. Bellan-Santini (2007) originally designated P. spinosa as the type species of Podosirus. She has since indicated (in litt.) that she intended the type species to be P. v a d e r i.

Distribution. Lucky Strike site, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Atlantic Ocean.

Notes

Published as part of Myers, A, 2012, Podosiridae, a new family of North Atlantic deep sea amphipod (Crustacea, Amphipoda), pp. 81-84 in Zootaxa 3546 on page 84, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210790

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Amathillopsidae
Genus
Podosirus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bellan-Santini
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Podosirus Bellan-Santini, 2007 sec. Myers, 2012

References

  • Bellan-Santini, D. (2007) New amphipods of hydrothermal vent environments on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Azores Triple junction zone. Journal of Natural History, 41 (9 - 12), 567 - 596.