Tayabasa barnardi (Lowry & Stoddart, 1993)

Kilgallen, Niamh M. & Lowry, James K., 2015, A review of the scopelocheirid amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea), with the description of new taxa from Australian waters, Zoosystematics and Evolution 91 (1), pp. 1-43 : 22-23

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.8440
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scientific name	Tayabasa barnardi (Lowry & Stoddart, 1993)
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Treatment

Tayabasa barnardi (Lowry & Stoddart, 1993) Figure 39

Eucallisoma barnardi Lowry & Stoddart, 1993: 68, figs 8-10. - Lowry 2000: 323 (list).

Type material.

Holotype, female, 40 mm, MNHN-Am4449.

Type locality.

Eastern entrance to Verde Island Passage, Philippines (13°36.7-38.11'N, 120°33.7-32.3'E), 810-820 m depth.

Depth range.

810-820 m.

Distribution.

Philippines: Verde Island Passage.

Discussion.

Eucallisoma barnardi is here transferred to its own genus, Tayabasa gen. n., on the basis of the cuspidate peg form of the lacinia mobilis, the vestigial maxilliped palp article 4, and the subacute posteroventral lobe on the pereopod 4 coxa.