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Acanthonotozomellidae Coleman & J. L. Barnard 1991

  • 1. Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 40, D- 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany & Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science (IMF), Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Grosse Elbstrasse 133, 22767 Hamburg, Germany
  • 2. Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd), 301 Evans Bay Parade, 6021 Wellington, New Zealand
  • 3. Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 40, D- 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Description

Key to the genera of Acanthonotozomellidae Coleman & J.L. Barnard, 1991 and Vicmusiidae Just, 1990

Updated from Coleman & Jäger 2001

1. Body processes bluntly rounded.... Acanthonotozomopsis Watling & Holman, 1980 (now in family Vicmusiidae Just, 1995)

- Body processes acute or formed into distinctly dorsal carinae.................................................. 2

2. Article 2 of maxillipedal palp medially produced........................... Acanthonotozomoides Schellenberg, 1931

- Article 2 of maxillipedal palp not produced................................................................. 3

3. Pereonite 1 with distinct dorsal carinae.................................................................... 4

- Pereonite 1 dorsally smooth, coxa 2 shorter than 1................................ Paracanthonotozomella gen. nov.

4. Pereonite 1 with 1 dorsal carina, coxae 2–3 divergent......................... Acanthonotozomella Schellenberg, 1926

- Pereonite 1 with 2 dorsal carinae, coxae 2–3 similar......................... Amatiguakius Coleman & Barnard, 1991b

Notes

Published as part of Lörz, Anne-Nina, Peart, Rachael A. & Freiwald, André, 2025, Cold-water coral associated Acanthonotozomellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) off Aotearoa New Zealand, with description of a new genus and species, pp. 535-548 in Zootaxa 5729 (4) on page 539, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/18019121

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References

  • Just, J. (1990) Vicmusia duplocoxa, gen. et sp. nov., (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) of the new family Vicmusiidae from Australian upper bathyal waters. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 3, 925-940. https://doi.org/10.1071/IT9890925
  • Coleman, C. O. & Jager, I. (2001) Acanthonotozomella rauscherti (Amphipoda, Acanthonotozomellidae), a new species from the Antarctic Ocean. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 21 (2), 475-483. https://doi.org/10.1163/20021975-99990149
  • Watling, L. & Holman, H. (1980) New Amphipoda from the Southern Ocean, with partial revision of the Acanthonotozomatidae and Paramphithoidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 93, 609-654.
  • Just, J. (1995) Acanthonotozomopsis Watling & Holman, 1980, Senior Synonym of Vicmusia Just, 1990 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Vicmusiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 9, 1005-1008. https://doi.org/10.1071/IT9951005
  • Schellenberg, A. (1931) Gammariden und Caprelliden des Magellangebietes, Sudgeorgien und der Westantarktis. - Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1903, 2, 1-290.
  • Schellenberg, A. (1926) Die Gammariden der Deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903, Sudpolar-Expedition XVIII. Zoologie, X, 238-414.
  • Coleman, C. O. & Barnard, J. L. (1991 b) Amatiguakius forsberghi, a new genus and species from Alaska (marine Amphipoda: Epimeriidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 104, 279-287.