Apocorophium acutum Chevreux 1908
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Apocorophium acutum (Chevreux, 1908)
Figs 2–5.
Corophium acutum Chevreux, 1908: 75, fig. 6.— Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 366, figs. 359, 374.— Schellenberg, 1928: 672, 673.— Shoemaker, 1934: 26, 27.— Crawford, 1937: 624, 625.— Salfi 1939: 31, fig. 4–7.— Lincoln, 1979: 534, fig. 256a– d.— Hurley, 1954: 439 –442, fig. 3 (26–34).— Myers?1982: 188, fig. 126.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991a: 185.— Ren, 2006: 296 –297, fig.117.
Apocorophium acutum.— Bousfield & Hoover, 1997: 123 –125, fig. 35.— Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 89 (catalogue).— Bano & Kazmi, 2012: 113 (checklist).— Jung & Kim, 2007: 247 –250, fig. 1.
Corophium ascherusicum.— K.H. Barnard, 1916: 272 (in part).
Material examined. 1 male, 2.1 mm, dissected in part (A1–2; G1–2), 1 slide, SEM pin mount whole animal, AM P.97897; 1 female, 3.6 mm, dissected, 3 slides, AM P.97899; female 1 SEM pin mount, AM P.97898; paratypes 20 specimens (6 male and 14 female), AM P.97900, Sungai Brunei Estuary, Brunei River, Brunei, South China Sea (48°45′– 58°02′N 114°858′–115°810′E), 0.5–1.5 m, from intertidal hard substratum, attached to green algal mat, June 2012, coll. M. Belal Hossain.
Type locality. Annaba, Algeria.
Remarks. Apocorophium acutum is reported from a wide range of localities. The synonymy here comprehensively includes all taxonomic citations of the species. Illustrations by Bousfield & Hoover, 1997 in their review do not have the distal projection on antennae 2 which is present in all other illustrated reports of Apocorophium acutum.
Distribution. South China Sea: Brunei (current study; Ren 2006). Algeria (Chevreux 1908). British Isles (Crawford 1937; Lincoln 1979). Mediterranean (Chevreux & Fage 1925; Myers 1982). Suez Canal (Schellenberg 1928). South Africa (Crawford 1937). New Zealand (Crawford 1937; Hurley 1954). Australia (Lowry & Stoddart 2003). Korea (Jung & Kim 2007). Pakistan (Bano & Kazmi 2012), Northeast Pacific (Crawford 1937, Bousfield & Hoover 1997). Northwest Atlantic (Shoemaker 1934). Southwest Atlantic (Shoemaker 1934).
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Corophiidae
- Genus
- Apocorophium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Chevreux
- Species
- acutum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apocorophium acutum Chevreux, 1908 sec. Hossain & Hughes, 2016
References
- Chevreux, E. (1908) Sur trois nouveaux amphipodes mediterraneens appartenant au genre Corophium Latreille. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 33, 69 - 75. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 19156
- Chevreux, E. & Fage, L. (1925) Amphipodes. Faune de France, 9, 1 - 488.
- Schellenberg, A. (1928) Report on the Amphipoda. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22, 633 - 692. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1928. tb 00209. x
- Shoemaker, C. R. (1934) The amphipod genus Corophium on the east coast of America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 47, 23 - 32.
- Crawford, G. I. (1937) A review of the amphipod genus Corophium, with notes on the British species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 21, 589 - 630. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315400053753
- Salfi, M. (1939) Ricerche etologiche ed ecologiche sugli Anfipodi tubicoli del canale delle Saline di Cagliari. Archivio zoologico italiano, 27, 31 - 62.
- Lincoln, R. J. (1979) British Marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - v, 1 - 658.
- Hurley, D. E. (1954) Studies on the New Zealand amphipodan fauna. No. 7. The family Corophiidae, including a new species of Paracorophium. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 82, 431 - 460.
- Myers, A. A. (1982) Family Corophiidae. In: Ruffo, S. (Ed.), The Amphipoda of the Mediterranean, Part 1, Gammaridea (Acanthonotozomatidae to Gammaridae). Memoires de l'Institute Oceanographique, Monaco, 13, pp. 185 - 208.
- Barnard, J. L. & Karaman, G. S. (1991) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, 13, 1 - 866. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.13.1991.91
- Ren, X. (2006) Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea. Fauna Sinica Invertebrata vol. 41, 558 pp.
- Bousfield, E. L. & Hoover, P. M. (1997) The amphipod superfamily Corophioidea on the Pacific coast of North America. Part V. Family Corophiidae: Corophiinae, new subfamily. Systematics and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, 2, 67 - 139.
- Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E. (2003) Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea (Vol. 19.2 B). Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
- Bano, H. & Kazmi, Q. G. (2012) A Checklist of Marine Amphipods of Pakistan. Fuuast Journal of Biology, 2, 113 - 116.
- Jung, J. & Kim, W. (2007) Apocorophium acutum (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Corophiidae), Newly Recorded Corophiid Species in Korea. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, 23, 247 - 250. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5635 / KJSZ. 2007.23.2.241
- Barnard, K. H. (1916) Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. 5. The Amphipoda. Annals of the South African Museum, 15, 105 - 302, pls 126 - 128. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10646