Linguimaera boecki ( Haswell, 1879b )

Hughes, Lauren E., 2016, New genera, species and records of Maeridae from Australian Waters: Austromaera, Ceradocus, Glossomaera, Hamimaera, Huonella gen. nov., Linguimaera and Maeraceterus gen. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda), Zootaxa 4115 (1), pp. 1-81 : 41-42

Linguimaera boecki ( Haswell, 1879b)

( Figs 29–31 )

Megamoera boeckii Haswell, 1879b: 336 , pl. 21, fig. 6.

? Maera boeckii .— Della Valle, 1893: 732.

Elasmopus boeckii .— Stebbing, 1899: 426.— Stebbing, 1906: 445.— Stebbing, 1910a: 643. Maera boecki .— Barnard & Barnard, 1983: 623.

Linguimaera boecki .— Lowry & Springthorpe, 2005: 248 –249, figs 8–10.— Krapp-Schickel, 2008: 22. not Elasmopus boeckii .— K.H. Barnard, 1916: 199: pl. 27, figs 13–14.

Type locality. Sow and Pigs Reef, Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia (33°30′S 151°16′E).

Material examined. New South Wales: male, dissected, 8.0 mm, 4 slides, east of Bermagui, (36°26′S 150°14′6″E), AM P. 92234, 120m, benthic sled, 5 September 1994, coll. P. Berents (SS05/94/155).

Remarks. In the material from Bermagui, New South Wales (AM P.92234), the telson is longer than broad unlike the specimen figured by Lowry & Springthorpe (2005) which is broader than long. The antennae 1 article is also variable in the number of robust setae along the posterior margin, the right peduncle has three evenly spaced setae while the left has only two distal robust setae, which differs from the Lowry & Springthorpe (2005) material which has one proximal and one distal robust setae. These differences are considered intraspecific variation.

Distribution. New South Wales: Port Jackson; Bermagui ( Haswell 1879b; Lowry & Springthorpe 2005; current study).

Figures

FIGURE 29. Linguimaera boecki (Haswell, 1879 b), male, 8.0 mm, AM P. 92234, east of Bermagui, New South Wales.

FIGURE 30. Linguimaera boecki (Haswell, 1879 b), male, 8.0 mm, AM P. 92234, east of Bermagui, New South Wales, scales 0.1 mm.

FIGURE 31. Linguimaera boecki (Haswell, 1879 b), male, 8.0 mm, AM P. 92234, east of Bermagui, New South Wales, scales 0.1 mm.