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Ameroculodes Bousfield and Chevrier 1996

Description

A key to the species of Ameroculodes

1 a Telson quadrate or truncate distally; epimeral plates truncate, quadrate or produced at the posteroventral angle............................................ 2

1 b Telson rounded distally; epimeral plates broadly rounded distally........................................................... Ameroculodes miltoni, n. sp.

2 a Pereopod 3, segment 7, nail longer than 1 / 3 length of segment 6; epimeral plate 2 produced posteroventrally............. Ameroculodes edwardsi (Holmes, 1905)

2 b Pereopod 3, segment 7, nail shorter than 1 / 3 length of segment 6; epimeral plate 2 quadrate posteroventrally, not produced..................... Ameroculodes sp. (of Bousfield and Chevrier 1996; Bousfield, 1973, p. 97, plate 19.1)

Notes

Published as part of Foster, John M. & Heard, Richard W., 2002, Ameroculodes miltoni, a new species of estuarine amphipod (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Oedicerotidae) from the southeastern United States, pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 28 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4620161

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oedicerotidae
Genus
Ameroculodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bousfield and Chevrier
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Ameroculodes and, 1996 sec. Foster & Heard, 2002

References

  • Bousfield, E. L. & Chevrier, A. (1996) The amphipod family Oedicerotidae on the Pacific coast of North America. I. The Monoculodes & Synchelidium generic complexes: Systematics and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, 2, 77 - 148.
  • Bousfield, E. L. (1973) Shallow Water Gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, Comstock Publishing Associates, 312 p.