Leucothoe furina ( Savigny, 1816 )

White, Kristine N. & Machida, Ryuji J., 2018, Taiwanese Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda), Including Three New Species from Dongsha Atoll., Zoological Studies 57 (47), pp. 1-22 : 4

Leucothoe furina ( Savigny, 1816)

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Lycesta furina ( Savigny, 1816) : 109-110, pl. 4/fig. 2.1.2b. - Audouin, 1826: 92, pl. 11/fig. 2.

Leucothoe furina Guérin-Méneville, 1829 -1844: 23, pl. 26/ fig. 8. - Milne Edwards, 1830: no text, pl. 37/fig. 7. - Milne Edwards, 1840: 57, 58, pl. 29/fig. 14. - Lucas, 1840: 230. - White, 1857: 189. - Carus, 1885, 409. - Bonnier, 1887: 328. - Stebbing, 1906: 165. - Schellenberg, 1928: 635- 637. - Cecchini, 1929: 771-773. -K.H. Barnard, 1931: 120. - Pirlot, 1936: 294. -K.H. Barnard, 1937: 152. - Sheard, 1937: 20. - Ruffo, 1938: 156. - Nayar, 1966, p. 142, fig. 5d. - Sivaprakasam, 1969: 387, 388, fig. 3. - Imbach, 1967: 79, pl. 21. - Ruffo, 1969: 10, 11. - Ledoyer, 1979: 166-168, fig. 14. - Vader and Beehler, 1983: 59, 60. - Bussarawich et al., 1984 a: none. - Lowry and Stoddart, 2003: 155.

Leucothoe hornelli Walker, 1904: 258 , 259, pl. 3, fig. 17. - Walker, 1905: 925. - Stebbing, 1906: 724. - Chevreux, 1908: 470. - Walker, 1909: 331.

Leucothoe spinicarpa Rudwick, 1951: 151 , fig. 2 (non Abildgaard, 1789).

Material examined: 1 male, 1 female; KNW- Dongsha-2017-4h, Dongsha Atoll southeast fore reef, 20°38'11.4"N, 116°54'25.85"E, 17 m; 22 May 2017; K.N. White, collector. 1 male, 2 female; KNW-Dongsha-2017-6a, Dongsha Atoll east fore reef, 20°40'38.18"N, 116°55'31.30"E, 17.4 m; 23 May 2017; K.N. White, collector.

Ecology: This species lives in the branchial chambers of ascidians in the genus Pyura ( Molina, 1782) in Taiwanese waters (present study); in Phallusia nigra ( Savigny, 1816) in Mediterranean waters ( Savigny, 1816) and Polycarpa aurata (Quoy and Gainard, 1834) on the Great Barrier Reef (K.H. Barnard, 1937).

Distribution: South China Sea: Dongsha Atoll, Taiwan (present study), Vietnam ( Imbach 1967); Mediterranean Sea: Egypt ( Savigny 1816; Stebbing 1906), Suez ( Schellenberg 1928; K.H. Barnard 1931); North Sea: Banff ( Stebbing 1906). Atlantic Ocean: Bay de Quiberon ( Bonnier 1887); Indian Ocean: Minikoi, India ( Walker 1905), Ceylon ( Stebbing 1906; K.H. Barnard 1931; Nayar 1966), Maldives (K.H. Barnard 1937), Puket ( Ledoyer 1979); Red Sea (K.H. Barnard 1931; Ruffo 1938); Atlantic Ocean: Dakhla Archipelago ( Ruffo 1969).

Figures

Fig. 2. (A) Leucothoe akaisen White and Reimer, 2012c, female, KNW-Dongsha-2017-8b; (B) Leucothoe alani White and Krapp- Schickel, 2017, male, KNW-Dongsha-2017-1e; (C) Leucothoe bise White and Reimer, 2012b, male, KNW-Dongsha-2017-6c; (D) Leucothoe enko White and Reimer, 2012c, female, KNW-Dongsha-2017-9f; (E) Leucothoe furina (Savigny, 1816), male, KNW- Dongsha-2017-4h; (F) Leucothoe hashi White and Reimer, 2012b, male, KNW-Dongsha-2017-9h; (G) Leucothoe kebukai White and Reimer, 2012c, male, KNW-Green-4B; (H) Leucothoe lecroyae White and Reimer, 2012b, male, KNW-Peng-2A.