Latigammaropsis abbotti J.L. Barnard 1965
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Description
Latigammaropsis abbotti (J.L. Barnard, 1965)
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Megamphopus abbotti J.L. Barnard, 1965: 537, fig. 32.
Gammaropsis abbotti.— Ledoyer, 1972: 237, pl. 50.— Ledoyer, 1978: 288.— Ledoyer, 1979a: 155.— Ledoyer, 1979b: 31.— Ledoyer, 1983: 211, fig. 73.— Myers, 1995: 51.
Latigammaropsis abbotti.— Myers, 2009: 777.
Material examined. 6 males, 3 females (OUMNH.ZC.2002.24.122) Beluu Lukes Reef, eastern side, from Scleronephtya sp. (Alcyonacea: Nephtheidae), 20 m depth, cave overhang; 07°17.530'N, 134°30.870'E; leg. S. De Grave & C. Burras, 20 May 2002; 1 male (OUMNH.ZC.2002.24.123) Pkuklim Reef; from Halimeda sp. (Chlorophyta) washings, 6 m depth; 07°20.542'N, 134°34.023'E; leg. S. De Grave & C. Burras, 29 May 2002.
Remarks. Present material agrees well with original description of J.L. Barnard, 1965 except in having a round eye. J.L. Barnard (1965) discussed eye shape in Eurystheus (= Gammaropsis and Latigammaropsis in part) and pointed out that Stebbing’s (1888) concept of differences (between species) based on eyes was destroyed by Tattersall (1922), who reported E. atlanticus …. that mixed together specimens having oval eyes …. with specimens having lageniform eyes with a neck stretched up onto the head. J.L. Barnard himself (1965), reported material referable to E. atlanticus in Micronesia with oval eyes, and other material from Micronesia, also referable to E. atlanticus with lageniform eyes. According to Tattersall (1922), the lageniform eye was associated with a terminal condition of adulthood. It should be noted, however, that the holotype male of L. abbotti figured by J.L. Barnard (1965), that has a lageniform eye, is 2.75 mm. Present material with an oval eye includes males of a length (anterior margin of head to tip of telson) of 3.0 mm. For the moment we consider that eye shape is variable between populations and assign the present material to L. abbotti (J.L. Barnard).
Distribution. Madagascar: Tulear (Ledoyer 1972, 1979b, 1982); Mauritius (Ledoyer 1978); Indonesia: Amboina (Ledoyer 1979a); Papua New Guinea: Madang (Myers 1995); Caroline Islands: Ifaluk atoll; Marshall Islands (J.L. Barnard 1965); Palau (present study).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Isaeidae
- Genus
- Latigammaropsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- J.L. Barnard
- Species
- abbotti
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Latigammaropsis abbotti Barnard, 1965 sec. Myers, 2014
References
- Barnard, J. L. (1965) Marine Amphipoda of atolls in Micronesia. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 117, 459 - 551. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.117 - 3516.459
- Ledoyer, M. (1972) Amphipodes gammariens vivant dans les alveoles des constrictions organogenes recifales intertidales de la region de Tulear (Madagascar). Etude systematique et ecologique. Tethys, 3 (Supplement), 165 - 285.
- Ledoyer, M. (1978) Amphipodes gammariens (Crustacea) des biotopes cavitaires organogenes recifaux de l'ile Maurice (Ocean Indien). The Mauritius Institute Bulletin, 8 (3), 197 - 332.
- Ledoyer, M. (1979 a) Expedition Rumphius II (1975) Crustaces parasites, commensaux, etc. (Th. Monod et R. Serene, ed.) VI. Crustaces Amphipodes Gammariens. Bulletin du Museum National Histoire naturelle, Paris. Series 4, Section A, 1, 137 - 181.
- Ledoyer, M. (1979 b) Les gammariens de la pente externe du Grand Recif de Tulear (Madagascar) (Crustacea', Amphipoda). Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Ser. 2. Sezione Scienze della Vita, Verona, 2, 1 - 150.
- Ledoyer, M. (1983) Crustaces amphipodes gammariens familles des Acanthonotozomatidae a Gammaridae. Faune de Madagascar, 59 (1), 1 - 598.
- Myers, A. A. (1995) The Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Madang Lagoon: Aoridae, Isaeidae, Ischyroceridae and Neomegamphopidae. Records of the Australian Museum, 22 (Supplement), 25 - 95. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.22.1995.121
- Myers, A. A. (2009) Photidae. In: Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A. (Eds.), Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa, 2260, 771 - 799.
- Tattersall, W. M. (1922) Zoological results of a tour of the Far East. Amphipoda with notes on an additional species of Isopoda. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 6, 435 - 459.