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Issue: Vol. 4732 No. 2: 12 Feb. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4732.2.4
Page range: 295–306
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Two species of Talorchestia Dana 1853 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae) including T. lakshadweepensis sp. nov. from the Lakshadweep Islands, India

Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India.
Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland.
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, Block M, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Crustacea Amphipoda taxonomy Talorchestia new species marine India

Abstract

Two species of the beach-hopper genus Talorchestia Dana, 1853 were collected at Cheriyam Island in the union territory of Lakshadweep in south western India. One species was identified as T. affinis Maccagno, 1936, known previously from the Red Sea, Somalia and East Africa and recorded for the first time from India, the other proved to be a new species, T. lakshadweepensis sp. nov.

 

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