Ericthonius punctatus
Authors/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
41. Ericthonius punctatus (Spence Bate, 1857)
Materials examined. 24 individuals; Stations Vas. 9(7), 13(4), 17(1), 30(1), 32(8), 37(1), 40(2).
Distribution. Atlanto-Mediterranean. The species was reported from Cyprus by Kocatas et al. (2001) and Christodoulou et al. (2013). In Vasiliko Bay (current study), it is considered as a rare species (FI: 16.6 %).
Ecology. In Vasiliko Bay it was found at depths of 7–35 m (14 + 10 m), in sandy and muddy sand substrates with organic matter ranging between 2.2–6.462 % (3.996 + 1.725 %) and in association with C. nodosa. It was found in stations classified according to the Bentix Index as in: “high” (2 stations, 10 individuals), “good” (3 stations, 12 individuals) and “moderate” (2 stations, 2 individuals).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Spence Bate
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Family
- Ischyroceridae
- Genus
- Ericthonius
- Species
- punctatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ericthonius punctatus (Bate, 1857) sec. Rousou, Plaiti, Lowry, Charalambous & Chintiroglou, 2020
References
- Spence Bate, C. S. (1857) On a new amphipod: Iphimedia eblanae. The Natural History Review, 4, 229 - 230.
- Kocatas, A., Katagan, T. & Huseyin. A. B. (2001) Contribution to the knowledge of the crustacean fauna of Cyprus. Israel Journal of Zoology, 47 (2), 147 - 160. https: // doi. org / 10.1560 / YQL 8 - 4 PBT- 12 W 2 - 82 HV
- Christodoulou, M., Paraskevopoulou, S., Syranidou, E. & Koukouras, A. (2013) The amphipod (Crustacea: Peracarida) fauna of the Aegean Sea, and comparison with those of the neighbouring seas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93 (5), 1303 - 1327. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 002531541200183 X