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Niphargus spasenijae Karaman G. S. 2015

  • 1. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Av., Anavyssos 19013, Greece. & ntakisal @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7072 - 5838
  • 2. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Av., Anavyssos 19013, Greece.
  • 3. Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva ul. 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Cene. Fiser @ bf. uni-lj. si; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1982 - 8724
  • 4. Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Universiteì Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. fabio. stoch @ ulb. ac. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4535 - 3769

Description

Niphargus spasenijae Karaman G.S., 2015

Published records: Karaman G.S. (2015).

Distribution: Endemic to Greece: Thasos Island (TH).

Type material: Holotype: female 7, S–7381= anchialine cave in Atspas near seashore, Skala Marion, Island Thasos, Aegean Sea, 3 exp., 24.08.2015 (leg. I. Karaman), mm Karaman G.S. (2015). Paratype: male 6.1 mm, data same as for holotype, Karaman G.S. (2015). Holotype and paratypes are deposited in KCPM.

Remarks: This species was described in 2015 by Karaman G.S. and is the only known Niphargus from Thasos Island, in the northern Aegean Sea. Its ecology is yet unknown.

Etymology: This species is dedicated to deceased scientist Prof. Dr. Spasenija Karaman from Novi Sad (Serbia) for her excellent studies of Oligochaeta from the Balkan Peninsula.

Notes

Published as part of Ntakis, Alexandros, Karaouzas, Ioannis, Fišer, Cene & Stoch, Fabio, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Niphargidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of Greece, pp. 517-544 in Zootaxa 4772 (3) on page 533, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3856611

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
KCPM
Event date
2015-08-24
Family
Niphargidae
Genus
Niphargus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
spasenijae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
2015-08-24
Taxonomic concept label
Niphargus spasenijae S., 2015 sec. Ntakis, Karaouzas, Fišer & Stoch, 2020