Plumithoe acuticoxa, Myers, Alan A., 2012

Myers, Alan A., 2012, Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Palau, Micronesia: Families Ampeliscidae, Ampithoidae, Aoridae, Colomastigidae and Cyproideidae, ZooKeys 193, pp. 1-25 : 12

Plumithoe acuticoxa sp. n.

Ampithoe hirsuta Myers 1985, 22, figs 13-14.

not Ampithoe pollex var hirsutus Ledoyer 1978, 220, fig. 8.

Type material.

Holotype male (AM P35333) Makaluva Island, Viti Levu, Fiji, 13 August, 1979, coral debris from reef crest, A. A. Myers.

Etymology.

Named after the shape of the coxa of the male gnathopod 1.

Remarks.

A full description and figures of this species are provided by Myers (1985). Plumithoe acuticoxa sp. n. differs from all other described species of Plumithoe by its male gnathopod 2 basis fringed with long setae on the anterior margin. In its acute coxa 1, it differs from all described Plumithoe species except Plumithoe quadrimana (Haswell), but that species lacks a spine on the propodus of the male gnathopod 2. It differs from all other Plumithoe species except Plumithoe hirsuta Ledoyer in its very short article 3 of the mandible palp but differs from that species in the male coxa 1 and gnathopod 2 basis as described above.

Distribution.

Fiji