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Issue: Vol. 2205 No. 1: 21 Aug. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-08-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2205.1.3
Page range: 53–61
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 1

Lysianopsis adelae, new species of amphipod (Gammaridea: Lysianassidae) from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, SW Gulf of Mexico

Laboratorio de Crustáceos, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Av. de los Barrios 1, los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla, Estado de México, México
Centro de Investigaciones Marinas-UH, Calle 16 Número 114, e/1ra y 3ra, Playa, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba
Crustacea Taxonomy Lysianassidae Lysianopsis shallow water benthos

Abstract

A new species of amphipod of the genus Lysianopsis from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, SW Gulf of Mexico is described. Lysianopsis adelae n. sp., was collected in the sediments at the base of the sponge Aplysina fistularis at a depth of 10 m. The differences among L. alba, L. hummelincki, and L. ozona, recorded from Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea are pointed out and they are compared with the new species.

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