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Issue: Vol. 4748 No. 2: 6 Mar. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.2.9
Page range: 375–381
Abstract views: 82
PDF downloaded: 3

Gondwanorchestia tristanensis gen. nov. sp. nov., a new southern hemisphere genus and species of talitrid amphipod (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitridae)

Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia.
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, Interior Parque Quinta Normal, P.O. Box 787, Correo Central, Santiago, Chile.
Crustacea Amphipoda Talitridae Tristan da Cunha new genus new species

Abstract

Material collected by the Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Tristan Da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean in the years 1937–1938 and later attributed by Stephensen, 1949 to Orchestia scutigerula Dana, 1852 has been re-examined and is described as a new genus and species, Gondwanorchestia tristanensis sp. nov. Orchestia scutigerula Dana, 1852 is transferred to Gondwanorchestia gen nov. and compared with G. tristanensis sp. nov.

 

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