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Issue: Vol. 4067 No. 1: 20 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.1.7
Page range: 88–94
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of the subterranean genus Stygobromus (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) from a cave spring in northern Florida, USA

Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, U.S.A.
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, Florida 32307, U.S.A.
Amphipoda Crangonyctidae Stygobromus stygomorphic cave spring subterranean groundwater Florida Panhandle

Abstract

A relatively large, distinct new species of the subterranean amphipod crustacean genus Stygobromus (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) measuring 13 mm in length is described from Skipper Spring, a cave spring in the northwestern “panhandle” of Florida, USA. This is the first species of the genus described from the state of Florida where it is described from only 3 females. A fourth much smaller specimen of this species was collected from nearby Miller’s Crossing Spring on Holmes Creek. All other stygomorphic amphipod species recorded from the state of Florida have been in the genus Crangonyx.

 

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