Elasmopus alalo Myers, 1986

Hughes, L. E., 2015, Ampithoidae and Maeridae Amphipods from Timor-Leste (Crustacea: Peracarida), Records of the Australian Museum 67 (3), pp. 83-108 : 89-90

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.67.2015.1644

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4684357

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038387E2-5B32-B567-FED5-FA3881C18A71

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Carolina

scientific name

Elasmopus alalo Myers, 1986
status

 

Ceradocus serratus (Bate, 1862)

Figs 5–6

Megamaera serrata Bate, 1862: 226, pl. 39, fig. 5.

Moera spinosa Haswell, 1879a: 268, pl. 10, fig. 5. —Haswell, 1882: 257. —Haswell, 1885: 105, figs 5–12 (part).

Ceradocus rubromaculatus. —Della Valle, 1893: 720 (in part). —Stebbing, 1906: 431 (in part).

Maera spinosa. —Stebbing, 1910a: 642.

Ceradocus (Denticeradocus) serrata. —Sheard, 1939: 285, figs 4, 5a–m.

Ceradocus serratus. —J. L. Barnard, 1972a: 221, figs 130–131. —Ledoyer, 1979: 66, fig. 36. —Ledoyer, 1983: 440, fig. 165. —Barnard & Barnard, 1983: 616. —Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 176, (catalogue). —Krapp-Schickel & Vader, 2009: 2061–2065, (key). —Ren, 2012: 190, fig. 82.

Type locality. Flinders and Hummock Islands, Bass Strait, southern Australia .

Material examined. 1 male, 4.0 mm, dissected, 4 slides, AM P.90574, west of Dili, off Tibar, on outer side of reef, rubble and sandy reef slope (8°33'48" S 125°28'31" E), 10–12 m, coral rubble and mixed algae, coll. A. Murray, 21 September 2012 ( TM 2012-037); 1 female, 5.5 mm, dissected, 1 slide, AM P.90575, west of Dili, off Tibar, on outer side of reef, rubble and sandy reef slope (8°33'48" S 125°28'31" E), 10–12 m, coral rubble and mixed algae, coll. A. Murray, 21 September 2012 ( TM 2012-037); 1 specimen, AM P.90573, west of Dili, off Tibar, on outer side of reef, rubble and sandy reef slope (8°33'48" S 125°28'31" E), 10–12 m, coral rubble and mixed algae, coll. A. Murray, 21 September 2012 ( TM 2012-037); 2 specimens, AM P.90596, east of Cape Fatucama, 300 m off Jesus Backside Beach (8°31'16" S 125°36'46" E), 11.9 m, dead coral head, coll. L.E. Hughes & A. Reid, 19 September 2012 ( TM 2012-020); 1 specimen, AM P.90597, east of Cape Fatucama, 300 m off Jesus Backside Beach (8°31'16" S 125°36'46" E), 12–15 m, dead coral rubble with epiphytic growth and sponges, coll. A. Murray, P.A. Hutchings, L.E. Hughes & A. Reid, 19 September 2012 ( TM 2012-014); 1 specimen, AM P.90598, east of Atauro Island, inner reef, reef slope (8°14'30"S

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125°36'49"E), 12 m, fine-leaf green alga Halimeda sp. and lump of dead coral, coll. P.A. Hutchings, 20 September 2012 ( TM 2012-029).

Distribution. Timor-Leste (current study). Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania (Bate, 1862; Barnard, 1972a; Haswell, 1879; Haswell, 1885; Sheard, 1939).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Melitidae

Genus

Elasmopus

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