Ampithoe ramondi ( Audouin, 1826 )

Myers, Alan A. & Nithyanandan, Manickam, 2016, The Amphipoda of Sea City, Kuwait. — The Senticaudata (Crustacea), Zootaxa 4072 (4), pp. 401-429 : 408

Ampithoe ramondi ( Audouin, 1826)

( Fig. 6 )

Amphithoe rubricata .— Della Valle, 1893: pl. XI11 figs 1–17 (partim).

Amphithoe vaillanti .— Chevreux, 1911: 260 –261, pl. XX figs 1–4.—K.H. Barnard, 1916: 253.— Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 333 – 334, figs 341–342.

Amphithoe ramondi .— Schellenberg, 1928: 665.— Shoemaker, 1942: 40.— J.L. Barnard, 1955: 28 –29.— J.L. Barnard, 1965: 25 –27, figs15–16.— Krapp-Schickel, 1969: 327 –330.— Krapp-Schickel, 1978: 1, figs 1–2.— Krapp-Schickel: 1982, 98, figs 66, 67.

Material. 1 male, 3 females ( NHMUK 2015. 3116–3119), from rock and associated seaweeds and hydroids on sides of concrete north tidal gate, within Sea City waterways, 17.03.2014, D.K. Raja; 3 females ( NHMUK 2015. 3120–3122), from sponges growing on concrete sides of north tidal gate, 8 April 2014, D.K. Raja; 2 males, 5 females ( NHMUK 2015. 3123–3129), from tunicates attached to concrete sides of north tidal gate, Sea City, 20 April 2014, D.K. Raja; 3 females ( NHMUK 2015. 3130–3132), from tunicate samples taken by diving in Marina in phase A2, 1 April 2014, D.K. Raja.

Remarks. Krapp-Schickel (1982), Myers (1985) and Hughes & Lowry (2009) have pointed out that A. ramondi represents a species complex. It is not possible to elucidate this complex here, but present material closely agrees with that described from the Mediterranean Sea by Krapp-Schickel (1982).

Figures

FIGURE 6. Ampithoe ramondi Audouin, male 5.0 mm, Sea City, Kuwait.