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Mallacoota sokotrae

  • 1. Animal Taxonomy and Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan- 384265, Gujarat, India dimplethacker 789 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3101 - 0028
  • 2. Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Lab, Department of Zoology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India kjpatel 8460 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0810 - 4210
  • 3. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland bavayia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3256 - 2123
  • 4. Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda Reina Mercedes 6, 41012, Sevilla, Spain jmguerra @ us. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6050 - 4997
  • 5. Department of Marine Invertebrates, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia SA 5000 wolfgang. zeidler @ samuseum. sa. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4133 - 9698 Corresponding author: jntrivedi 26 @ yahoo. co. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1308 - 7104

Description

227. Mallacoota sokotrae (Walker & Scott, 1903)

Type locality: Abd al Kuri, Yemen.

Synonyms: Elasmopus sokotrae Walker & Scott, 1903; Maera sokotrae Sivaprakasam, 1968.

Distribution. World: Yemen (Walker & Scott 1903), India (Sivaprakasam 1966).

India: South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Sivaprakasam 1966 as Elasmopus sokotrae Walker & Scott, 1903; Sivaprakasam 1968a as Maera sokotrae (Walker & Scott, 1903)); Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion: Bay of Bengal (Surya Rao 1972 as Maera sokotrae (Walker & Scott, 1903)).

Notes

Published as part of Thacker, Dimple, Patel, Krupal, Myers, Alan, Guerra-García, José M., Zeidler, Wolfgang & Trivedi, Jigneshkumar, 2023, Annotated Checklist of Marine Amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of India, pp. 1-90 in Zootaxa 5340 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8324090

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References

  • Walker, A. O. & Scott, A. (1903) Crustacea: Malacostraca. II. Decapod and sessile-eyed crustaceans from Abd-el-Kuri: Macrura and Edriophthalma. In: The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, pp. 216 - 233.
  • Sivaprakasam, T. E. (1966) Amphipoda from the east coast of India. Part 1. Gammaridea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 8 (1), 82 - 122.
  • Sivaprakasam, T. E. (1968 a) Amphipods of the genera Maera Leach and Elasmopus Costa from the east coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 10 (1), 34 - 51.
  • Surya Rao, K. V. (1972) Intertidal amphipods from the Indian coast. In Proceding of Indian National Science Academy, 38, 190 - 205.