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Eurydice arabica Jones 1974
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Eurydice arabica Jones, 1974
(Fig. 5 a, b)
Eurydice arabica Jones 1974: 202, fig. 2a–g.— Bruce 1986: 221.
Material examined. 3 females (SMF 40852) low tide, subtidal sand, Bahrain sta. 850805A5, Mashtan Island, coll. D.A. Jones 1985; 1 juv (SMF 40853) subtidal sand, Kuwait, Al-Ahmad Sea City waterways, sta. NS06 coll. B.R. Sontakke 2009.
Remarks. This species has been extensively collected in the Red Sea (Jones 1974; Dexter 1986 /7; Dexter 1989) from intertidal sand, but present records from Bahrain and Kuwait are the first for the Arabian Gulf.
The appendix masculina and pleotelson posterior margin are figured (Fig. 5 a, b), together with those of E. paxilli (Fig. 5 d, e) and E. inermis (Fig. 5 f) to assist with the identification key.
Notes
Published as part of Jones, David Alan & Nithyanandan, Manickam, 2012, Taxonomy and distribution of the genus Eurydice Leach, 1815 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the Arabian region, including three new species, pp. 45-57 in Zootaxa 3314 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210845
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Jones
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Cirolanidae
- Genus
- Eurydice
- Species
- arabica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eurydice arabica Jones, 1974 sec. Jones & Nithyanandan, 2012
References
- Jones, D. A. (1974) The systematics and ecology of some sand beach isopods (family Cirolanidae) from the coasts of Saudi Arabia. Crustaceana, 26 (2), 201 - 211.
- Bruce, N. L. (1986) Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 6, 1 - 239.
- Dexter, D. M. (1986 - 87) Sandy beach fauna of Mediterranean and Red Sea coastlines of Israel and the Sinai Peninsula. Israel Journal of Zoology, 34, 125 - 138.
- Dexter, D. M. (1989) The sandy beach fauna of Egypt. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 29, 261 - 271.