Ambasia Boeck 1871
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Ambasia Boeck, 1871
Ambasia Boeck, 1871: 97.— Stebbing, 1906: 51.— Lincoln, 1979: 62.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 461.
Type species. Gammarus atlanticus Milne Edwards, 1830, by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Eyes present or absent. Mouthparts forming quadrate bundle. Labrum and epistome continuous, but differentially produced, prominent, coalesced, epistome dominant in projection and subsharp. Incisor ordinary, molar absent; palp attached strongly proximal. Inner plate of maxilla 1 weakly setose; outer plate with 6 spines; palp 2-articulate, large. Inner and outer plates of maxilliped well developed, palp scarcely exceeding outer plate, dactylus vestigial. Antenna 2, peduncular article 1 comma shaped. Coxa 1 slightly shortened and partly covered by coxa 2. Gnathopod 1 short, simple, articles 5 and 6 subequal, elongate; dactylus small. Article 6 of gnathopod 2 greatly shorter than article 5, ordinary, propodus minutely chelate. Inner ramus of uropod 2 without notch. Uropod 3 ordinary, peduncle ordinary, inner ramus strongly shortened, outer ramus 2-articulate. Telson elongate, deeply cleft. (Diagnosis revised according to Barnard & Karaman, 1991).
Distribution. Marine, Boreal East Atlantic and Arctic, often on starfishes, 20–1400 m (Barnard & Karaman 1991).
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.5.3 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/229524 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFBBFFF3FFF7FFD49514947CFFF6FF9D (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A1E6A9F9-23E1-4086-92CE-0F7FC509725A (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/0382878BFFF6FFD595839020FF29F911 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lysianassidae
- Genus
- Ambasia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Boeck
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ambasia Boeck, 1871 sec. Kaim-Malka, 2014
References
- Boeck, A. (1871) Crustacea Amphipoda Borealia et Arctica. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs - Selskabet i Christiania 1870, 83 - 280. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 2056
- Stebbing, T. R. R. (1906) Amphipoda I. Gammaridea. Das Tierreich, 21, 1 - 806.
- Lincoln, R. J. (1979) British Marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. - London: British Museum (Natural History), 658 pp.
- Barnard, J. L. & Karaman, G. S. (1991) The families and genera of marine Gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine Gammaroid). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 13 (2), 419 - 866. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.13.1991.367
- Edwards, H. M. (1830) Extrait de recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des crustaces amphipodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 20, 353 - 399, 10 pls.