Published November 26, 2020 | Version v1
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Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo 2000

  • 1. Osaka Museum of Natural History, Nagai Park, Higashi-Sumiyoshi, Osaka 546 - 0034 Japan.
  • 2. International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 1 - 19 - 8 Akahama, Otsuchicho, Iwate 028 - 1102, Japan. mkodama @ aori. u-tokyo. ac. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0889 - 5625
  • 3. Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1 - 1 - 1 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739 - 8524, Japan. tomikawa @ hiroshima-u. ac. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1521 - 9016

Description

Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000

[Japanese name: Kaku-sunnariyokoebi-zoku]

Synonym, diagnosis and included species. See Ariyama (2019). However, on the mandibular palp in the diagnosis, “article 1 lacking distal tooth” is modified to “article 1 usually lacking distal tooth” (see Remarks of Quadrimaera angulata sp. nov.). In addition, the following four species are added to the included species: Quadrimaera anhi Dang & Le, 2011; Q. miramirandella Alves, Neves & Johnsson, 2018; Q. vietnamica Dang & Le, 2011; and Q. yemanjae Alves, Neves & Johnsson, 2018.

Notes

Published as part of Ariyama, Hiroyuki, Kodama, Masafumi & Tomikawa, Ko, 2020, Species of the Maera-clade collected from Japan. Part 4: addenda to genera Maera Leach, 1814 and Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000, with revised keys to Japanese species of the clade (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae), pp. 336-352 in Zootaxa 4885 (3) on page 344, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4296670

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References

  • Krapp-Schickel, T. & Ruffo, S. (2000) The Maera quadrimana - complex (Crustacea Amphipoda, Melitidae) demands a new concept: Quadrimaera n. gen. (with description of three new species from Western Atlantic). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 24, 193 - 214.
  • Ariyama, H. (2019) Species of the Maera - clade collected from Japan. Part 2: genera Austromaera Lowry & Springthorpe, 2005 and Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae). Zootaxa, 4554 (2), 460 - 496. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4554.2.6
  • Dang, N. T. & Le, H. A. (2011) Crustaceans family Melitidae (Amphipoda- Gammaridea) from Vietnam sea. Vietnam Journal of Biology, 33 (2), 1 - 18. [in Vietnamese with English abstract and descriptions of new species] https: // doi. org / 10.15625 / 0866 - 7160 / v 33 n 2.740
  • Alves, J., Neves, E. & Johnsson, R. (2018) A review of Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000 (Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from Brazil. Zootaxa, 4532 (4), 567 - 593. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4532.4.8