Melita sampsonae Lowry & Springthorpe 2009
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Melita sampsonae Lowry & Springthorpe, 2009
Melita sampsonae Lowry & Springthorpe, 2009: 726, figs 6–7.— Shin et al., 2013: 888.— Labay, 2016: Tables 1, 3, 6.
Type material. Holotype, male, 4.2 mm, AM P77779, Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island, 14°38.90'S 145°27.26'E, swash/subtidal, protected beach with patch reefs offshore, coarse coral sand with pieces of coral, 0.5–1.0 m, S.E. LeCroy, 2 July 2001, station (SEL /LZI-1–1). Paratypes: female ovigerous, 3.4 mm, AM P77780, male, 4.8 mm, AM P77781, type locality.
Type locality. Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island, 14°38.90'S 145°27.26'E.
Diagnosis. Based on holotype, male, 4.2 mm, AM P77779. Head anteroventral margin with notch, anteroventral corner rounded. Antenna 2 peduncular article 4 longer than article 5. Gnathopod 1 sexually dimorphic; coxa anteroventral corner slightly produced, anterior margin concave, propodus with anterodistal projection forming hood over dactylus, hood triangular, palm straight. Gnathopod 2 significantly enlarged in male, not in female; sexually dimorphic; propodus expanded, with medial depression, palm extremely acute with broadly rounded posterodistal corner; dactylus closing across medial surface of propodus, apically acute/subacute. Pereopod 5 basis posterior margin convex. Pleonite/urosomite dorsal spine formula (0 0 0 0 2). Epimeron 3 ventral margin smooth, posterior margin smooth, posteroventral corner with small acute spine. Urosomite 1 posterior margin smooth. Urosomite 2 posterior margin with 2 lateral spines and 3 small dorsolateral robust setae on each side. Uropod 3 outer ramus 2- articulate. Telson with robust setae on outer margins, each lobe with 1 robust seta on inner margin.
Remarks. The affinities of Melita sampsonae with other Melita species was discussed by Lowry & Springthorpe, 2009: 729.
Habitat. Brackish, littoral, coarse coral sand.
Distribution. Australia. Queensland: Lizard Island (Lowry & Springthorpe 2009).
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5765.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/19192194 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/AB7E4872FFD6FFA64E0A7407FFA30267 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/878F01AD-0FD8-4F40-8DA2-630BF69210D5 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/5747300AFF92FFE34E9D72C6FBCB00E2 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AM , AM, SEL
- Material sample ID
- P77779 , P77780, P77781
- Event date
- 2001-07-02
- Verbatim event date
- 2001-07-02
- Scientific name authorship
- Lowry & Springthorpe
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Family
- Melitidae
- Genus
- Melita
- Species
- sampsonae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melita sampsonae Lowry, 2009 sec. Springthorpe, 2026
References
- Springthorpe, R. T. & Lowry, J. K. (2009) Hadziidae. In: Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A. (Eds.), Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa, 2260, 434-439. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.23
- Shin, M-H., Coleman, C. O. & Kim, W. (2013) Discovery of a new species of Melita (Amphipoda: Melitidae) associated with Barnea dilatata (Bivalvia, Mollusca) from South Korea. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 33 (6), 882-893. https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240X-00002188
- Labay, V. S. (2016) Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). III. Genera Abludomelita G. S. Karaman, 1981 and Melita Leach, 1814. Zootaxa, 4156 (1), 1-73. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4156.1.1