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Amphipod crustaceans from Chilean Patagonia

Charles O. COLEMAN, Traudl KRAPP-SCHICKEL & Vreni HÄUSSERMANN

en European Journal of Taxonomy 849 (1) - Pages 1-57

Published on 08 December 2022

This paper describes new or little known Amphipoda collected from Hydrozoa, Bryozoa, Porifera or kelp along the Chilean fjord region. The following species have been found and most of them were redescribed and illustrated: Sunamphitoe femorata (Krøyer, 1845); Caprella cf. equilibra Say, 1818; Haplocheira barbimana robusta K.H. Barnard, 1932; Epimeria (Metepimeria) acanthurus (Schellenberg, 1931); Labriphimedia vespuccii K.H. Barnard, 1931; Leucothoe kawesqari Esquete & Aldea, 2015; Podocerus cf. danae (Stebbing, 1888); Ligulodactylus macrocheir (Schellenberg, 1926) and Torometopa cf. crassicornis (Schellenberg, 1931). One species in this contribution is new to science: Liouvillea rocagloria sp. nov.

Keywords:
Taxonomy, Amphipoda, Crustacea, new species, associations with other invertebrates
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