Amphipoda
Authors/Creators
- 1. Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia (deceased 4 November 2021)
- 2. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, DiSTeBA, University of Salento, via Monteroni 165, 73100 Lecce, Italy & Research Centre for Fisheries and Aquaculture of Aquatina di Frigole, DiSTeBA, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Description
Key to male New Caledonian talitroid amphipods
1 G1 posterior margin of carpus and propodus each with palmate lobe .............................................................................................................................. 2
—— G1 posterior margin of merus, carpus, and propodus each with palmate lobe .............................................................................................................................. 4
2 G1 parachelate. G2 propodus palm with large, recurved robust setae lining palmar margin ................................................ Talorchestia spinipalma Dana, 1852
—— G1 subchelate. G2 propodus palm without large, recurved robust setae lining palmar margin ........................................................................................................ 3
3 G2 dactylus attenuated distally ............................................................. Chroestia amoa sp. nov.
—— G2 dactylus short, recurved distally .......................... Thiorchestia caledoniana gen. et sp. nov.
4 G2 propodus with midpalmar sinus .................... Chevreuxiana antennulata (Chevreux, 1915)
—— G2 propodus without palmar sinuses ........................................................................................ 5
5 Telson with apical and marginal robust setae ........ Ignamborchestia sarasini (Chevreux, 1915)
—— Telson with apical robust setae only .......................................................................................... 6
6 G2 dactylus apically acute. Gills bilobate. Telson with 2 apical setae ......................................................................... Chiltonorchestia pusilla (Chevreux, 1915)
—— G2 dactylus recurved distally. Gills quadrilobate. Telson with 4 apical setae ........................... Chiltonorchestia starmuhlneri (Ruffo & Vesentini Paiotta, 1972)
Collections (not examined). Six males, 3 females, Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, 6–13 June 1958; 4 males, 6 females, Magenta, New Caledonia, 8, 14 October 1958; 3 males, 4 females, Nou Vata, Noumea, New Caledonia, 8 October 1958; 1 male, 1 female, Mount d’Ore, New Caledonia, 18 October 1958.
Type locality. Just north of Liku’alofa Beach Resort, Tongatapu, Tonga, 21°04'50.29"S 175°20'39.10"W.
Habitat. Under dried Turbinaria and other algae in the supralittoral zone.
Remarks. Habitat reported referred to Tonga (Lowry & Bopiah, 2013); the habitat in New Caledonia is also supralittoral, an extended black sand beach with pumice.
Distribution. Australia: Queensland: Port Douglas (Serejo, 2009). Marshall Islands: Yap; Kusaie Island (J. L. Barnard, 1960). New Caledonia: NouVata, Noumea; Isle of Pines; Magenta (Morino & Miyamoto, 1988), Thio mission, Grand Terre (this paper). Papua New Guinea: Ralum, Bismarck Archipelago (Schellenberg, 1938); Motupore Island (9°31'30"N 147°16'40"E) (Morino & Miyamoto, 1988). Philippine Islands: Ubay, Bohol (Schellenberg, 1938). Solomon Islands: Gizo (Morino & Miyamoto, 1988). Rennell Islands (Bousfield, 1970). Tonga: Tongatapu (Dana, 1852; Lowry & Bopiah, 2013).
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Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Amphipoda
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References
- Dana, J. D. 1852. Conspectus crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana Pars III. [Amphipoda. No. 1.]. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2: 201 - 220.
- Chevreux, E. 1915. Amphipodes de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et des iles Loyalty. In Nova Caledonia, ed. F. Sarasin and J. Roux, Recherches scientifique en Nouvelle-Caledonie et aux iles Loyalty, A, Zoologie 2 (1): 1 - 14, pls. 1 - 3. Wiesbaden: C. W. Kreidels Verlag.
- Ruffo, S., and G. Vesentini Paiotta. 1972. Etudes Hydrobiologiques en Nouvelle-Caledonie (Mission 1965 du Premier Institut de Zoologie de l'Universite de Vienne) Les amphipodes (Crust.) de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Cahiers de l'Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, series Hydrobiologia 6 (3 - 4): 247 - 260.
- Lowry, J. K., and A. Bopiah. 2013. The talitrid amphipods of Tonga (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae). Zootaxa 3681 (4): 347 - 370.
- Serejo, C. S. 2009. Talitridae. In Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, ed. J. K. Lowry and A. A. Myers. Zootaxa 2260: 1 - 930. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2260.1.2
- Barnard, J. L. 1960. Crustacea: Amphipoda (strand and terrestrial Talitridae). Insects of Micronesia 4 (2): 13 - 30.
- Morino, H., and H. Miyamoto. 1988. Redefinition of Talorchestia (Amphipoda: Talitridae) with description of a new species from the tropical West Pacific. Journal of Crustacean Biology 8: 91 - 98. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 193724088 X 00116
- Schellenberg, A. 1938. Litorale Amphipoden des tropischen Pazifiks nach Sammlungen von Prof. Bock (Stockholm), Prof. Dahl (Berlin) und Prof. Pietschmann (Wien). Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Series 3 16 (6): 1 - 105.
- Bousfield, E. L. 1970. Terrestrial and aquatic amphipod Crustacea from Rennell Island. The Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands 6: 155 - 168.