Cerapus volucola Lowry and Berents 2005
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Description
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Cerapus volucola Lowry & Berents, 2005: 160, figs 7–9.
Type locality. False Orford Ness, north-east of Cape York, Australia.
Habitat. Algal or seagrass dwellers. Littoral; 3–38 m.
Tube. A cylindrical wrap of seagrass and algae.
Remarks. Lowry & Berents (2005) reported Cerapus volucola from near Lizard Island. The species was not found during the present survey. Cerapus volucola differs from C. nudus sp. nov. in many characters, including coxae 1–4 fused to pereonites (coxa 1 in female not fused); coxae 3 and 4 with acute anteroventral lobe; a sharply acute rostrum (dorsal view); shorter antennae with more flagellar articles; dactylus of gnathopod 2 with posterior row of long setae; all pereopods with more and longer setae; telson lobes with 14– 15 dorsal hooks in 2 rows; tube constructed of plant material.
Distribution. Australia. Entire Great Barrier Reef south to North Stradbroke Island (Lowry & Berents 2005). Papua New Guinea. Madang Lagoon (Lowry & Berents 2005).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lowry and Berents
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Family
- Ischyroceridae
- Genus
- Cerapus
- Species
- volucola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cerapus volucola and, 2005 sec. Just, 2009
References
- Lowry, J. K. & Berents, P. B. (2005) Algal-tube dwelling amphipods in the genus Cerapus from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ischyroceridae). Records of the Australian Museum, 57, 153 - 164.