Leucothoe adelphe White & Thomas 2009
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Description
Leucothoe adelphe White & Thomas, 2009: 498–501, figs 3, 4.
Type locality and specimens. Three Sisters Bommie, Yonge Reef, Lizard Island 14°36.104'S 145°37.126'E. Holotype, male, 1.6 mm, AM P 71436; paratype, female, 1.9 mm, AM P 71271.
Material examined. 3 males, AM P 79819. Diagnosis based on description by White & Thomas (2009).
Diagnosis. Anterodistal head margin rounded with cusp. Ventral cephalic keel transverse. Gnathopod 1 basis slightly inflated, bare; dactylus reaching 0.1 x propodus length. Gnathopod 2 basis stout, widened distally; carpus distally truncate, smooth; propodus palm convex with four blunt projections. Pereopods 5–7 bases narrow. Uropods 1–3 rami lined with short setae. Telson, apex with weak point.
Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Gnathopod 1 carpus proximal margin without strong dentitions, weakly dentate anterodistally; propodus palm with fewer dentitions. Gnathopod 2 basis anterior margin with two long and two short setae, anterodistal margin with row of four short setae; propodus mediofacial setal row with fewer setae; submarginal setal row with five setae; dactylus distally acute.
Habitat. Among coral rubble and fibrous brown algae; 6– 20 m.
Host. Unknown.
Distribution. Pacific Ocean: Lizard Island, Australia (White & Thomas 2009).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AM, P
- Scientific name authorship
- White & Thomas
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Ericales
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Leucothoe
- Species
- adelphe
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leucothoe adelphe White, 2009 sec. White, 2011
References
- White, K. N. & Thomas, J. D. (2009) Leucothoidae. In: Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A. (Eds), Amphipoda (Crustacea, Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa, 2260, 494 - 555.