Tatahipeke kirki ( Hurley, 1956 ), 2023

Hughes, Lauren E. & Lowry, James K., 2023, Review of New Zealand Coastal Talitroids with description of three new genera (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata), Zootaxa 5268 (1), pp. 1-81 : 60

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scientific name	Tatahipeke kirki ( Hurley, 1956 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Tatahipeke kirki ( Hurley, 1956) View in CoL comb. nov.

( Fig. 69 View FIGURE 69 )

? Talorchestia tumida View in CoL .— Young, 1929: 155.

Talorchestia kirki Hurley, 1956: 371 View in CoL , figs. 71–80.

Bellorchestia kirki View in CoL .— Serejo & Lowry, 2008: 169.

Types. See comment in Materials and methods. None designated.

Type locality. Chatham Islands, New Zealand .

Size. Male body size unknown (not stated in Hurley 1956), female, 14 mm.

Remarks. Tatahipeke kirki is poorly described taxon. The condition of the gnathopod 1 palmate lobes, gnathopod 2 chelation, uropods and telson are not described or illustrated. Hurley (1956) indicates that pereopods 6 and 7 are not sexually dimorphic. With limited details from the original description, this placement of T. kirki within the genus Tatakipeke gen. nov. is based on Hurley’s (1956) statement that T. kirki has few morphological characters separating it for Tatahipeke tumida ( Stebbing, 1887) comb. nov. Recorded only from the Chatham Islands, an isolated island group 850 km east of mainland New Zealand, were it not for the considerable geographic distance between these species they could be considered synonymous.

This relationship contrasts with another pair of closely aligned Chatham Island and New Zealand mainland species pair, Aotearorchestia chathamensis ( Hurley, 1956) comb. nov. and A. telluris ( Spence Bate, 1862) comb. nov. which are morphological close yet readily distinguishable (see remarks for A. chathamensis ).

Habitat. S upralittoral (McIntyre, unpublished MSS.)

Distribution. New Zealand. Chatham Islands: Okawa Beach ( Young 1929; Hurley 1956).

References

Hurley, D. E. (1956) Studies on the New Zealand amphipodan fauna. No. 13. Sandhoppers of the genus Talorchestia. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 84, 359 - 389.

Serejo, C. & Lowry, J. K. (2008) The coastal Talitridae (Amphipoda, Talitroidea) of Southern and Western Australia with Comments on Platorchestia platensis (Kroyer, 1845). Records of the Australian Museum, 60 (2 / 3), 161 - 206. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.60.2008.1491

Spence Bate, C. S. (1862) Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees, British Museum, London, 399 pp.

Stebbing, T. R. R. (1887) On some new exotic Amphipoda from Singapore and New Zealand. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 12 (6), 199 - 210, pls. 138 + 139. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1887. tb 00013. x

Young, M. W. (1929) Marine fauna of the Chatham Islands. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 60 (l), 136 - 166, pls. 16 - 17.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Amphipoda
SubOrder	Senticaudata
InfraOrder	Talitrida
SuperFamily	Talitroidea
Family	Talitridae
Genus	Tatahipeke