Leucothoe furina ( Savigny, 1816 )

White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, Zootaxa 3078 (1), pp. 1-113 : 52

Leucothoe furina ( Savigny, 1816)

Lycesta furina Savigny, 1816: 109 , 110, pl. 4, figs 2.1, 2b. — Audouin, 1826: 92, pl. 11, fig. 2. — Guérin-Méneville, 1829 – 1844: 23, pl. 26, fig. 8. — Milne Edwards, 1830: no text, pl. 37, fig. 7. — Milne Edwards, 1840: 57, 58, pl. 29, fig. 14. — Lucas, 1840: 230. — White, 1857: 189. — Carus, 1885, 409. — Bonnier, 1887: 328. — Stebbing, 1906: 165. — Schellenberg, 1928: 635–637. — Cecchini, 1929: 771–773. —K.H. Barnard, 1931: 120. — Pirlot, 1936: 294. —K.H. Barnard, 1937: 152. — Sheard, 1937: 20. — Ruffo, 1938: 156. — Nayar, 1966, p. 142, fig. 5d. — Sivaprakasam, 1969b: 387, 388, fig. 3. — Imbach, 1969: 79, pl. 21. — Ruffo, 1969: 10, 11. — Ledoyer, 1979b: 166–168, fig. 14. —Vadar & Beehler, 1983: 59, 60. —Bussarawich, Nateewathana, & Hylleber, 1984a: none. — Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 155.

Leucothoe hornelli Walker, 1904: 258 , 259, pl. 3, fig. 17. — Walker, 1905: 925. — Stebbing, 1906: 724. — Chevreux, 1908c: 470. — Walker, 1909: 331.

Leucothoe spinicarpa Rudwick, 1951: 151 , fig. 2 (not Abildgaard, 1789).

Type locality and specimens. Mediterranean or Red Sea, Egypt . Types lost.

Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Savigny (1816), Walker (1904), and Imbach (1969).

Diagnosis. Gnathopod 2 carpus with small subdistal tooth; propodus palm with three to four large projections. Epimeron 1 with anteroventral tuft of setae. Epimeron 3 sinuous with simple cusp. Uropod 3 elognate.

Note. Examination of material examined is necessary for each description to determine if all references are in fact L. furina . Many descriptions and illustrations are poor, showing variation in many structures.

Female (sexually dimorphic characters). No significant sexually dimorphic character.

Habitat. 10–15 m.

Host. In branchial chamber of ascidians, including Phallusia nigra ( Savigny, 1816) and Polycarpa aurata .

Distribution. Mediterranean Sea: Egypt ( Savigny 1816; Stebbing 1906), Suez ( Schellenberg 1928; K.H. Barnard 1931). North Sea: Banff ( Stebbing 1906). Atlantic Ocean: Bay de Quiberon ( Bonnier 1887). Indian Ocean: Minikoi, India ( Walker 1905), Ceylon ( Stebbing 1906; K.H. Barnard 1931; Nayar 1966), Maldives (K.H. Barnard 1937), Puket ( Ledoyer 1979b). Red Sea (K.H. Barnard 1931; Ruffo 1938). Atlantic Ocean: Dakhla Archipelago ( Ruffo 1969). South China Sea: Vietnam ( Imbach 1969)