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Published: 2012-03-16
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A new species of amphipod, Photis inornatus sp. nov. (Corophiidea, Photidae) from a ‘Haploops community’ in Brittany

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences,University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland
IFREMER Laboratoire d’Ecologie Benthique,French Research Institute for the Exploration of the Sea, Technopole de Brest-Iroise, BP70, 29280 Plouzané, France
Univ. Paris 06, Station Biologique de Roscoff, UMR 7144, Place Georges Teissier, 29680 Roscoff, France
IFREMER Laboratoire d’Ecologie Benthique,French Research Institute for the Exploration of the Sea, Technopole de Brest-Iroise, BP70, 29280 Plouzané, France
Crustacea amphipod Photis new species taxonomy France

Abstract

A new species of Photis, P. inornatus sp. nov., is described and figured from a Haploops community between 20 and 35m depth in shallow waters from South Brittany, in the bay of Concarneau, northernmost part of the Bay of Biscay. Thisspecies was consistently found in macrobenthic samples extracted from the muddy Haploops community but not in sur-rounding muddy environment. An updated identification key is provided for European Atlantic and Mediterranean species of Photis.

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