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Amathillopsis Heller 1875

Creators

Description

Amathillopsis Heller, 1875

Amathillopsis Heller, 1875: 35. — Stebbing, 1906: 384. — Gurjanova, 1955: 209 (key). — J.L. Barnard, 1969: 394. — Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 390.

Acanthopleustes Holmes, 1908: 533 (Acanthopleustes annectens Holmes, 1908 by original designation).

Type species

Amathillopsis spinigera Heller, 1875 by original designation.

Diagnosis

Characters of the subfamily.

Species composition

Amathillopsis contains 11 species: A. affinis Miers, 1881; A. annectens (Holmes, 1908); A. atlantica Chevreux, 1908; A. australis Stebbing, 1883; A. charlottae Coleman, 1998; A. comoroensis Ledoyer, 1986; A. grevei J.L. Barnard, 1961; A. pacifica margo J.L. Barnard, 1967; Amathillopsis pacifica pacifica Gurjanova, 1955; A. septemdentata Ledoyer, 1978; A. spinigera Heller, 1875.

Other

Published as part of Lowry, J. K., 2006, New families and subfamilies of amphipod crustaceans, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1254 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.173054

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Amathillopsidae
Genus
Amathillopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Heller
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Amathillopsis Heller, 1875 sec. Lowry, 2006

References

  • Heller, C. (1875) Die Crustaceen, Pycnogoniden und Tunicaten der K. K. Osterr-Ungar. Nordpol-E xpedition. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 35, 25 - 46, pls 1 - 5.
  • Stebbing, T. R. R. (1906) Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. Das Tierreich, 21, 1 - 806.
  • Gurjanova, E. F. (1955) [New species of Amphipoda, Gammaridea from the northern part of the Pacific]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Zoologischeskogo Instituta, 18, 166 - 218.
  • Barnard, J. L. (1969) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 271, 1 - 535.
  • Barnard, J. L. & Karaman, G. S. (1991) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids) part 1 & 2. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement, 13, 1 - 866.
  • Holmes, S. J. (1908) The Amphipoda collected by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer " Albatross " off the west coast of North America, in 1903 and 1904, with descriptions of a new family and several new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 35, 489 - 543.
  • Miers, E. J. (1881) On a small collection of Crustacea and Pycnogonida from Franz-Josef Land, collected by B. Leigh Smith, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 7, 45 - 51, pl. 7.
  • Chevreux, E. (1908) Diagnoses d'amphipodes nouveaux provenant des campagnes de la Princesse- Alice dans l'Atlantique nord. (suite). Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique, Monaco, 122, 1 - 8.
  • Stebbing, T. R. R. (1883) The ' Challenger' Amphipoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 11, 203 - 207.
  • Coleman, C. O. (1998) Amathillopsis charlottae n. sp., first record of Amathillopsidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the Antarctic Ocean. Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 16 (5), 25 - 31.
  • Ledoyer, M. (1986) Crustaces Amphipodes Gammariens. Familles des Haustoriidae a Vitjazianidae. Faune de Madagascar, 59 (2), 599 - 1112.
  • Barnard, J. L. (1961) Gammaridean Amphipoda from depths of 400 to 6000 meters. Galathea Report, 5, 23 - 128.
  • Barnard, J. L. (1967) Bathyal and abyssal gammaridean Amphipoda of Cedros Trench, Baja California. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 260, 1 - 205.
  • Ledoyer, M. (1978) Contribution a l'etude des amphipodes gammariens profonds de Madagascar (Crustacea), Tethys, 8 (4), 365 - 382.