Melanesius cooki Ledoyer, 1984

Peart, R. A. & Hughes, L. E., 2013, Ampithoid amphipods from the South Pacific: Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (13 - 14), pp. 739-861 : 829-833

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2013.825027

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5199089

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F81E87FD-8259-FFCC-FDFD-6087FD545B06

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Melanesius cooki Ledoyer, 1984
status

 

Melanesius cooki Ledoyer, 1984 View in CoL

( Figures 67–70 View Figure 67 View Figure 68 View Figure 69 View Figure 70 )

Exampithoe (Melanesius) cooki Ledoyer, 1984, p. 24 View in CoL , fig. 10. Poore and Lowry, 1997, p. 901. Lowry, 2007, p. 282 (checklist).

Melanesius cooki Myers and Lowry, 2003, p. 467 View in CoL .

Type locality

Ilot Maitre , New Caledonia (22 ◦ 20.57 ′ S, 166 ◦ 25.43 ′ E) GoogleMaps .

Material examined

New Caledonia: Male, 5 mm, dissected, four slides, AM P.84592, Off Ilot Maitre (22 ◦ 20.57 ′ S, 166 ◦ 25.43 ′ E), 20 m, brown alga Sargassum sp. , 7 November 1995, coll. I. Takeuchi (NCL-37); female, 5 mm, dissected, one slide, AM P.84593, Off Ilot Maitre (22 ◦ 20.57 ′ S, 166 ◦ 25.43 ′ E), 20 m, brown alga Sargassum sp. , 7 November 1995, coll. I. Takeuchi (NCL-37); six specimens, AM P.84594, Off Ilot Maitre (22 ◦ 20.57 ′ S, 166 ◦ 25.43 ′ E), 20 m, brown alga Sargassum sp. , 7 November 1995, coll. I. Takeuchi (NCL-37).

Remarks

This is the first record of Exampithoe cooki Ledoyer, 1984 since its original description from New Caledonia.

Distribution

New Caledonia ( Ledoyer 1984; current study).

AM

Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Ampithoidae

Genus

Melanesius

Loc

Melanesius cooki Ledoyer, 1984

Peart, R. A. & Hughes, L. E. 2013
2013
Loc

Melanesius cooki

Myers AA & Lowry JK 2003: 467
2003
Loc

Exampithoe (Melanesius) cooki

Lowry JK 2007: 282
Poore AGB & Lowry JK 1997: 901
Ledoyer M 1984: 24
1984
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