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Issue: Vol. 5154 No. 5: 17 Jun. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.5.2
Page range: 528-536
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Description of a new species of Liropus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Puerto Vallarta, Pacific coast of Mexico

Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICMyL), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Unidad Académica Mazatlán), Avenida Joel Montes Camarena s/n, Cerro del Vigía PO Box 811, Mazatlán C. P. 82040, Mexico. Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas-UABC, Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada 3917, Colonia Playitas, Ensenada, B.C., C.P. 22860, Mexico
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICMyL), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Unidad Académica Mazatlán), Avenida Joel Montes Camarena s/n, Cerro del Vigía PO Box 811, Mazatlán C. P. 82040, Mexico. Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes, 6, 41012, Sevilla, Spain
Crustacea Liropus alarconi n. sp. Peracarida association sponge taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of the genus Liropus Mayer, 1920 (Amphipoda, Caprellidae) is described from the Mexican Tropical Pacific coast. Liropus alarconi n. sp. is described on the basis of four specimens collected in association with the tropical marine sponge Trikentrion helium Dickinson, 1945, near to coralline patches, between 23–30 m depth. Liropus alarconi n. sp. can be distinguished from its congeners for the following characters: pereonites 2–5 each with one dorsodistal projection and pereonite 3 with a mediolateral projection.

 

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