Leucothoe barana Thomas & Klebba 2007
Creators
Description
Leucothoe barana Thomas & Klebba, 2007: 5–10, figs 1–3. — White, 2011: 27, 28, fig. 4.
Type locality and specimens. Pelican Cays, Co Cat Cay, Belize, 16°39.527'N 88°12.032'W. Holotype, male, 10.17 mm, YPM 38640; paratype, female, 8.27 mm, YPM 38641.
Material examined. Unmeasured males and females, YPM 38640, YPM 38641, YPM 38642. Diagnosis based on description by Thomas & Klebba (2007).
Diagnosis. Anterodistal head margin with sharp projection. Ventral keel with sharp projection. Maxilliped inner plate with conate setae. Coxae 1–4 with serrate anterior and distal margins. Gnathopod 2 propodus with secondary mediofacial setal row of nine setae. Pereopods 5–7 bases narrowly expanded.
Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Gnathopod 2 propodus palm with slight projections.
Habitat. Coral reefs; 1–15 m.
Host. Sponges: Amphimedon compressa, Niphates erecta, and Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1814).
Distribution. Western Atlantic Ocean: Florida Keys (Thomas & Klebba 2007). Caribbean Sea: Belize (Thomas & Klebba 2007), Panama (White 2011).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- YPM
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Leucothoe
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Ericales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas & Klebba
- Species
- barana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leucothoe barana Thomas, 2007 sec. White, 2011
References
- Thomas, J. D. & Klebba, K. N. (2007) New species and host associations of commensal leucothoid amphipods from coral reefs in Florida and Belize (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Zootaxa, 1494, 1 - 44.
- White, K. N. (2011) Caribbean Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of Panama. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 23, 23 - 35.
- Lamarck, J. B. P. De Monet, Comte De. (1814) Sur les polypiers empates. Suite du memoire intitule: Sur les Polypiers empates. Suite des eponges. Annales du Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, 20 (6), 370 - 386, 432 - 458.