Leucothoe urospinosa Serejo, 1998

White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, Zootaxa 3078 (1), pp. 1-113 : 75

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5244361

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038D8786-FFB5-FF98-FF71-E8FCFDA78A4B

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scientific name

Leucothoe urospinosa Serejo, 1998
status

 

Leucothoe urospinosa Serejo, 1998

Leucothoe urospinosa Serejo, 1998: 131–134 , figs 18, 19. — Thomas & Klebba, 2007: 36, 41, 42, fig. 26.

Type locality and specimens. Paredes Reef , Bahia, Brazil. Holotype, male, 4.3 mm, MNRJ 7297 View Materials ; paratypes, Unmeasured males and females, MNRJ 8535 View Materials , MNRJ 8537 View Materials , MNRJ 7299–7300 View Materials , MNRJ 8538 View Materials , MNRJ 8520 View Materials , MNRJ 8519 View Materials , MNRJ 8523 View Materials , MNRJ 8533 View Materials , MNRJ 7290 View Materials , USNM 282802 About USNM , ZMA Amph. 203830.

Material examined. Unmeasured males and females ( JDT Bel 06–8 B). Diagnosis based on description by Serejo (1998).

Diagnosis. Short antennae 1–2. Anterior head margin truncate. Maxilla 1 palp constricted. Gnathopod 1 coxa with serrate anterior and posterior margins; propodus curved. Gnathopod 2 propodus mediofacial setal row displaced to midline, palm sub-rectangular with three major tubercles. Pereopods 5–7 bases narrowly expanded. Telson apex truncate with facial setae. Live specimens are orange in color.

Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Gnathopod 2 propodus palm finely serrate, without major projections.

Habitat. Coral reefs; 2–30 m.

Host. Sponges: Dysidea janiae and Tedania ignis .

Distribution. Atlantic Ocean: Bahia, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Brazil ( Serejo 1998). Caribbean Sea: Whale Shoals, Belize ( Thomas & Klebba 2007).

ZMA

Universiteit van Amsterdam, Zoologisch Museum

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Leucothoe

Loc

Leucothoe urospinosa Serejo, 1998

White, Kristine N. 2011
2011
Loc

Leucothoe urospinosa

Thomas, J. D. & Klebba, K. N. 2007: 36
Serejo, C. S. 1998: 134
1998
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