New genera, species and records of Maeridae from Australian Waters: Austromaera, Ceradocus, Glossomaera, Hamimaera, Huonella gen. nov., Linguimaera and Maeraceterus gen. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Author
Hughes, Lauren E.
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Zootaxa
2016
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Hamimaera hamigera
(
Haswell, 1879b
)
Moera hamigera
Haswell, 1879b
: 333
, pl. 21, fig. 1.
Maera hamigera
.—
Stebbing, 1888
: 1790
.—
Della Valle, 1893
: 723
.—
Stebbing 1906
: 437
.—
Barnard & Barnard, 1983
: 623
.—?
Ren, 2012
: 240
–242, fig. 104.
Linguimaera hamigera
.—
Lowry & Springthorpe, 2005
: 249
–252, figs. 11–13.
Hamimaera hamigera
.—
Krapp-Schickel, 2008
: 29
–30, fig. 27.
not
Maera hamigera
.—
Walker 1909
: 335
, pl. 43, fig. 5, pl. 3.—
Karaman & Ruffo, 1971
: 152
, figs 21–23.—
Lyons & Myers, 1993
: 587
, fig. 10. (=
L. caesaris
Krapp-Schickel, 2003
)
not
Maera hamigera
.—
Stebbing 1910a
: 600
.—
K.H. Barnard, 1916
: 196
, pl. 27, figs 11–12.—
Chilton, 1921
: 73
.—
J.L. Barnard, 1965
: 507
, fig. 16 (in part).—
Ledoyer, 1983
: 523
, figs 196–197.—
Karaman, 1982
: 312
, fig. 211.—
Myers, 1997
: 109
.—
Appadoo, Myers & Fagoonee, 2002
: 664
–668, figs 14–16.
Material
examined.
New
South Wales
:
2 specimens
, AM P.77036,
Surgeons Reef
, north of
North West
Solitary Island (
30°00′27″S
153°16′13″E
),
10–11 m
, orange sponge,
30 April 2005
, coll.
P.B. Berents
(
NSW
2790
)
;
3 specimens
, AM P.77035,
Chopper Rock
, northwest of
North West
Solitary
Island
(
30°00′30″S
153°15′22″E
),
17 m
, ascidian
Herdmania momus
,
29 April 2005
, coll.
S.J. Keable
(
NSW
2778
)
;
3 specimens
, AM P.77009,
Black Rocks
, south of Smoky
Cape
(
30°56′59″S
153°04′29″E
),
10.3 m
, reef rock encrusted with red and green algal turf,
10 February 2002
, coll.
S.J. Keable
(
NSW
1814
)
;
6 specimens
, AM P.77012,
Black Rock
, south of Smoky
Cape
(
30°56′58″S
153°04′32″E
),
10 m
, reef rock,
13 February 2002
, coll.
S.J. Keable
(
NSW
1867
)
;
1 specimen
, AM P.77021, north west corner of Green
Island
, north of Smoky
Cape
(
30°54′41″S
153°05′18″E
),
8–10 m
, ascidians covered with algae and encrustations,
15 February 2002
, coll.
R.T. Springthorpe
(
NSW
1923
)
;
2 specimens
, AM P.77016, northwest corner of Green
Island
, north of Smoky
Cape
(
30°54′41″S
153°05′18″E
),
11 m
, tunicates and sponge,
15 February 2002
, coll.
S.J. Keable
(
NSW
1914
)
;
2 juvenile
specimens, AM P.97858, north west corner of Green
Island
, north of Smoky
Cape
(
30°54′40″S
153°5′18″E
)
7.3m
, airlift,
15 February 2002
, coll.
Kate Attwood
(
NSW
1921
)
;
6 specimens
, AM P.77074, southwest side of Boondelbah
Island
, east of
Port Stephens
(
32°42′30″S
152°13′32″E
),
20 m
, under stones,
10 March 2006
, coll.
R.T. Springthorpe
(
NSW
2914
)
;
3 specimens
, AM P.77082, northeast side of Little Broughton
Island
, northeast of
Port Stephens
(
32°37′05″S
152°20′06″E
),
17 m
, rock reef with gutters and sand patches, macroalga
Ecklonia
sp. holdfasts,
11 March 2006
, coll.
R.T. Springthorpe
(
NSW
2940
)
;
1 specimen
, AM P.77101, sewage pipeline,
Nelson
Bay,
Port Stephens
(
32°43′11″S
152°08′28″E
),
10 m
, hydroids on rubble,
15 March 2006
, coll.
K.B. Attwood
(
NSW
3052
)
;
3 specimens
, AM P.36639,
Twofold Bay
,
Quarantine Bay
(
37°04′42″S
149°53′E
),
2 m
, seagrass
Posidonia
sp., airlift,
9 October 1984
, coll.
S.J. Keable
and
J.T. van der Velde
(Q6, Q8)
;
19 specimens
, AM P.77029,
Diamond Reef
, south-east of
Hallidays Point
(
32°05′26″S
152°33′05″E
),
17 m
, brown-green sponge,
21 March 2003
, coll.
P.B. Berents
,
S.J. Keable
and
R.T. Johnson
(
NSW
2243
)
;
11 specimens
, AM P.77031, east of
Red Head
(
32°03′17″S
152°33′14″E
),
12.4 m
, orange lacy bryozoan,
22 March 2003
, coll. AM party (
NSW
2245
)
;
2 specimens
, AM P.77033, east of
Red Head
(
32°03′17″S
152°33′14″E
),
9.5 m
, brown convoluted sponge,
22 March 2003
, coll.
P.B. Berents
,
S.J. Keable
and
R.T. Johnson
(
NSW
2260
)
;
1 male
specimen, AM P.97859, Bare
Island
,
Botany Bay
(
33°59′S
151°13′E
),
3–7 m
, macroalga
Ecklonia radiata
kelp holdfast,
18 March 2011
, coll.
K.B. Attwood
and
L.E. Hughes
(MI
NSW
4014
)
;
1 male
specimen, AM P.77626, south of
Baronda Head
, north of
Tathra
(
36°41′12″S
149°59′53″E
),
12 m
, on yellow sponge,
5 April 2008
, coll.
R.T. Springthorpe
(MI
NSW
3275
)
.
Type
locality.
Port Jackson
,
New
South Wales
,
Australia
(
33°51′S
151°16′E
).
Distribution.
New South
Wales
: Smoky
Cape
; Coffs Harbour; Solitary Islands; Port Stephens; Hallidays Point; Red Head; Port Jackson Wattamolla; Munganno Point; Bare
Island
; Twofold Bay; Tathra (Haswell 1879;
Lowry & Springthorpe 2005
; current study).
Tasmania
: eastern slope of Bass Strait (
Lowry & Springthorpe 2005
).