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Issue: Vol. 5474 No. 1: 25 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.1.5
Page range: 59-67
Abstract views: 92
PDF downloaded: 49

A new species of Pontocrates Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) from Cyprus

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School of Biological; Earth and Environmental Sciences; University College Cork; Cork Enterprise Centre; Distillery Fields; North Mall; Cork; Ireland
School of Biological Sciences; University of Aberdeen; Cruickshank Building; St Machar Drive; Aberdeen AB24 3UU; Scotland; UK
School of Biological Sciences; University of Aberdeen; Cruickshank Building; St Machar Drive; Aberdeen AB24 3UU; Scotland; UK
Center of Marine Sciences; Universidade do Algarve; Faro; 8005-139 Portugal
Enalia Physis Environmental Research Center; Acropoleos 2; CY-2101Aglantzia; Cyprus
Enalia Physis Environmental Research Center; Acropoleos 2; CY-2101Aglantzia; Cyprus
School of Biological Sciences; University of Aberdeen; Cruickshank Building; St Machar Drive; Aberdeen AB24 3UU; Scotland; UK
Faculty Technology; Policy; and Management; Delft University of Technology; Jaffalaan 5; 2628 BX Delft;The Netherlands
School of Biological Sciences; University of Aberdeen; Cruickshank Building; St Machar Drive; Aberdeen AB24 3UU; Scotland; UK; Marine Biodiscovery Centre; Department of Chemistry; University of Aberdeen; Aberdeen AB24 3UE; Scotland; UK; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; San Diego State University; CA; 92182-1030; USA
Crustacea Amphipoda oedicerotidae Pontocrates marmario new species Cyprus Mediterranean

Abstract

A new species of the amphipod genus Pontocrates (Boeck 1871), family Oedicerotidae, is described from Cyprus in the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is a sister taxon to Pontocrates moorei (Myers & Ashelby 2022), currently recorded solely from the British Isles. It is the third species of Pontocrates now known to occur in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

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