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Cymadusa alyxis Hughes & Lowry 2009

Description

Cymadusa alyxis Hughes & Lowry, 2009

(Fig. 11)

Cymadusa alyxis Hughes & Lowry, 2009: 171 –174, figs 11–12, pl. 1D.

Type locality. Picnic Beach, Palfrey Island, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia (14°41.69’S 145°26.89’E).

Material examined. Norfolk Island: Male, 11.8 mm, dissected, 3 slides, AM P.90108, Emily Bay (29°03’36”S 167°57’12”E), 3 m, rubble encrusted in algae, 20 May 2008, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 89); many specimens, AM P.81601, Emily Bay (29°03’36”S 167°57’12”E), 3 m, rubble encrusted in algae, 20 May 2008, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 89); 4 specimens, AM P.81600, Emily Bay (29°03’36”S 167°57’12”E), 4 m, green algae Caulerpa racemosa and large pieces of rubble with encrusting algae, 20 May 2008, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 88); 9 specimens, AM P.81603, Emily Bay (29°03’36”S 167°57’12”E), 3.7 m, rubble on sand, 20 May 2008, coll. R.T. Springthorpe (MI NFK 82); 6 specimens, AM P.81604, Emily Bay (29°03’36”S 167°57’12”E), 4 m, tubes and rubble with encrusting algae, 20 May 2008, coll. J.K. Lowry (MI NFK 87); 13 specimens, AM P.81602, Cathedral Rock (29°00’13”S 167°56’57”E), 10.7 m, sediment and algae from rock face, 13 May 2008, coll. R.T. Springthorpe (MI NFK 8).

Distribution. Australia. Queensland: Lizard Island (Hughes & Lowry, 2009). Tasman Sea: Norfolk Island (current study).

Notes

Published as part of Hughes, Lauren E. & Peart, Rachael A., 2013, New species and new records of Ampithoidae (Peracarida: Amphipoda) from Australian Waters, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3719 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3719.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/246657

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hughes & Lowry
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Amphipoda
Family
Ampithoidae
Genus
Cymadusa
Species
alyxis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cymadusa alyxis Hughes, 2009 sec. Hughes & Peart, 2013