Chroestia lota Marsden & Fenwick, 1984

Lowry, J. K. & Myers, A. A., 2022, Platorchestiinae subfam. nov. (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitridae) with the description of three new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 5100 (1), pp. 1-53 : 6-7

Chroestia lota Marsden & Fenwick, 1984

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Chroestia lota Marsden & Fenwick, 1984: 844 , figs 1–4.— Springthorpe & Lowry, 1994: 23.— Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 271.— Serejo & Lowry, 2008: 162.— Lowry & Springthorpe, 2009a: 899.— Serejo, 2009: 892.

Non-Taxonomic Citations

Chroestia lota .— Marsden, 1985: 213, 216, table 1, 217, fig. 1, 218, table 2, 219, fig. 2, table 3 (oxygen uptake).

Types. Holotype, female, 9.1mm, AM P.34316 . Paratypes: male, 12.9 mm, AM P.34317; 28 paratypes, AM P.34319; 13 paratypes, NMV J7105 ; 19 paratypes, NMNZ Cr3206; 6 paratypes, AM P.34318.

Type locality. Lota, Moreton Bay , Queensland, Australia .

Ecological type. Beach-hopper.

Habitat. Marine beach-hopper (mascupod). Supralittoral beaches, among Zostera debris, upper littoral, on sand and gravel beach.

Size. Male, 12.9 mm, female, 9.1 mm.

Diagnosis (male). Based on Marsden & Fenwick (1984).

Gnathopod 1 propodus palm sinuous, with shallow proximal sinus. Telson without 1 or 2 very long robust setae on dorsal margin.

Distribution. Australia. Queensland: Lota, Moreton Bay ( Marsden & Fenwick, 1984) .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Chroestia lota Marsden & Fenwick, 1984, after Marsden & Fenwick, 1984.