Notoprotella berentsae (Takeuchi and Lowryı 2007b)

Takeuchi, Ichiro & Lowry, James K., 2019, A taxonomic study on Orthoprotella and related genera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) of New South Walesı Australia, Journal of Natural History 53 (17), pp. 1023-1059 : 1040

Notoprotella berentsae (Takeuchi and Lowryı 2007b)

Orthoprotella sp. – Mayer 1903: 36 ı pl. 1ı figs. 25ı 26ı pl. 6ı figs. 43ı 44ı 46ı pl. 9ı fig. 15. Orthoprotella mayeri K.H. Barnard 1916 . – McCain and Steinberg 1970: 57 (in part). – Lowry and Stoddart 2003: 27.

Orthoprotella berentsae Takeuchi and Lowryı 2007b: 42 – 47 ı figs. 4 – 6.

Type locality

Port Stephensı New South Walesı Australia.

Other localities

Broken Bayı Port Jackson and Twofold Bayı New South Wales. Australia.

Remarks

Orthoprotella mayeri K.H. Barnard 1916 [sensu lato] has been recorded from South Africaı Sydneyı New South Wales and Singapore (see McCain and Steinberg 1970). The close comparison of New South Wales specimens deposited at the Australian Museum with South African specimensı including holotypeı deposited at the South African Museum revealed that New South Wales specimens are a distinct species from the latterı known as Orthoprotella berentsae Takeuchi and Lowryı 2007b ( Takeuchi and Lowry 2007b). The description of maxilliped and pereonites 6 to 7 of O. berentsae agrees well with the generic diagnosis of Notoprotella gen. nov.