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Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-21
Page range: 95–100
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A new species of Sinocorophium from the Yangtze estuary (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Corophiidae: Corophiinae: Corophiini), China

Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Amphipoda Corophiidae Sinocorophium dongtanense new species Yangtze estuary China

Abstract

Amphipods collected from the Yangtze estuary, Shanghai, China are described as a new species, Sinocorophium dongtanense. It is closely allied to Sinocorophium homoceratum Yu, 1938 but differs markedly in the inner lateral side of peduncular article 4 of male antenna 2 having two rows of teeth.