Microdeutopus periergos Myers, Plaiti & Rousou 2018
Creators
- 1. Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece. chintigl @ bio. auth. gr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2101 - 5979 & Marine & Environmental Research (MER) Lab Ltd, 4533, Limassol, Cyprus.
- 2. Institute of Marine Biology Biotechnology & Aquaculture (IMBBC), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Gournes Pediados, P. O. Box 2214,71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
- 3. Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William St., Sydney 2010, Australia.
- 4. T. C. Geomatic Ltd, 1095, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- 5. Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece. chintigl @ bio. auth. gr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2101 - 5979
Description
31. Microdeutopus periergos Myers, Plaiti & Rousou, 2018
Materials examined. 676 individuals; Stations Vas. 1(13), 2(50), 5(139), 9(7), 11(1), 13(6), 14(30), 15(6), 17(96), 18(4), 20(7), 23(36), 24(46), 25(2), 26(17), 27(25), 29(7), 30(5), 31(9), 32(6), 33(31), 34(1), 35(1), 36(1), 37(40), 40(79), 41(11).
Distribution. Cyprus, Mediterranean Sea (Myers et al., 2018). In Vasiliko Bay it is considered as a constant species (FI: 61.9 %).
Ecology. In Vasiliko Bay it was found at 6–51 m depth (22 + 13 m), mainly in muddy sand and also sand substrates, with organic matter ranging between 1.933 –11.119 % (6.196 + 2.668 %) and in association with C. prolifera, C. cylindracea, C. nodosa, Dictyota spp., H. stipulacea and P. oceanica. It was found in stations classified according to the Bentix Index as in: “high” (5 stations, 145 individuals), “good” (10 stations, 348 individuals), “moderate” (11 stations, 158 individuals) and poor (1 station, 25). It was recorded at the ports (72 individuals), the buoy (2 individuals), at the freshwater underwater and power station outlet station (13 individuals) and at the fish farms stations (189 individuals).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Aoridae
- Genus
- Microdeutopus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Myers, Plaiti & Rousou
- Species
- periergos
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microdeutopus periergos Myers, 2018 sec. Rousou, Plaiti, Lowry, Charalambous & Chintiroglou, 2020
References
- Myers, A., Plaiti, W. & Rousou, M. (2018) A new species of Microdeutopus, M. periergos sp. nov. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Aoridae) from Cyprus (East Mediterranean Sea). Zootaxa, 4378 (1), 144 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4378.1.11