Elasmopus hooheno J.L. Barnard, 1970

Hughes, L. E. & Lowry, J. K., 2011, The genus Elasmopus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae) in Australian waters, Journal of Natural History 45 (9 - 10), pp. 579-628 : 593-594

Elasmopus hooheno J.L. Barnard, 1970

Elasmopus hooheno Barnard, 1970: 121 , fig. 70. Barnard, 1971: 71, 74–75, figs 33–35. Ledoyer, 1972: 217, pls 35, 36. Ledoyer, 1978: 269. Ledoyer, 1979b: 69, fig. 40. Ledoyer, 1983: 470, fig. 177. Berents, 1983: 116, fig. 13. Barnard and Barnard, 1983: 628. Lyons and Myers, 1993: 587, fig. 10. Myers, 1995: 38. Myers, 1997: 109. Ren, 1998, fig. 3. Lowry and Stoddart, 2003: 178. Lowry and Hughes, 2009: 652–656 figs 5, 6.

Elasmopus rapax Sivaprakasam, 1969: 45 , fig. 6A.

not Elasmopus hooheno Appadoo and Steele, 1998: 639 . (= E. pseudinteger Appadoo and Myers, 2003 ).

Type locality

Kawela Bay , Oahu, Hawaii .

Material examined

Christmas Island. 15 specimens, AM P.81728, Smiths Point (10 ◦ 26 ′ 1 ′′ S, 105 ◦ 39 ′ 38 ′′ E), 0.5 m, mooring can and chain, by hand on SCUBA, 20 October 2008, coll. J.K. Lowry and L.E. Hughes (MI WA 896) ; 17 specimens, AM P.81729, Smiths Point (10 ◦ 26 ′ 1 ′′ S, 105 ◦ 39 ′ 38 ′′ E), 2.5 m, mooring can and chain, by hand on SCUBA, coll. J.K. Lowry , 20 October 2008 (MI WA 898); 9 specimens, AM P.82186, Flying Fish Cove , near Smiths Point (10 ◦ 26 ′ 1 ′′ S, 105 ◦ 39 ′ 38 ′′ E), 11 August 1980, coll. H. Tranter.

Cocos (Keeling) Islands. 7 specimens, AM P.82178, between Prison Island and Direction Island , Cocos (Keeling) Islands (12 ◦ 5 ′ 5 ′′ S, 96 ◦ 52 ′ 4 ′′ E), dead coal encrusted in algae in channel, rubble, 8 October 1979, coll. F. Talbot.

Distribution

Australia. Queensland: Great Barrier Reef ( Lowry and Hughes 2009). Indian Ocean ( Australia). Cocos (Keeling) Islands ( Berents 1983; current study), Christmas Island (current study). India. Kilakkarai, Gulf of Mannar ( Sivaprakasam 1969). Indonesia. Marsegu Island, Moluccas ( Ledoyer 1979a). Madagascar. Tuléar ( Ledoyer 1972, 1979b). Mauritius. ( Ledoyer 1978). South China Sea: Nansha (or Spratly) Islands ( Ren 1998). USA. Oahu, Hawaiian Islands ( Barnard 1970).