Bamarooka, Lowry & Stoddart, 2002

Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2002, The Amaryllididae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea), Records of the Australian Museum 54, pp. 129-214 : 175

publication ID

2201-4349

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5239753

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/783187C3-FFEB-FFB3-1F10-F7AA922FF82A

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scientific name

Bamarooka
status

gen. nov.

Bamarooka View in CoL n.gen.

Diagnosis. Mouthpart bundle subconical. Mandible palp article 3 without A3-seta. Pereopod 4 coxa with anterior margin slightly obtuse, posterior margin rounded. Pereopods 5–7 with distal articles elongate. Uropod 3 rami lanceolate; without plumose setae in male and female; outer ramus 1- articulate.

Type species. Amaryllis bathycephala Stebbing, 1888 .

Species composition. Bamarooka View in CoL contains six species: B. anomala View in CoL n.sp.; B. bathycephala (Stebbing, 1888) ; B. dinjerra View in CoL n.sp.; B. endota View in CoL n.sp.; B. kimbla View in CoL n.sp. and B. tropicalis View in CoL n.sp.

Etymology. Bamarooka is an Australian Aboriginal word meaning “oval shield”, an allusion to coxa 4.

Remarks. Species of Bamarooka are mainly tropical amphipods distinguished from other amaryllidines by their strangely shaped coxa 4. Species level variation in Bamarooka is high, particularly in the eyes and the basis of pereopods 5 to 7. Bamarooka also occurs outside Australia, in New Caledonia (unpublished records) (see Fig. 41).

Distribution. Northwestern, northern and eastern coasts of Australia; New Caledonia; 2–175 m depth.

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