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JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
Volume 98, Issue 3, Pages 515-519Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315416001545
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Ampithoidae; Persian Gulf; new species; herbivorous amphipod
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- Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS) [392-011-11]
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Herbivorous amphipods of the family Ampithoidae have an important role in marine ecosystems. Ampithoe qeshmensis sp. nov. is a new member of Ampithoidae from the Qeshm Island, Persian Gulf. The new species resembles A. kava, A. katae and A. cookana based on the second male gnathopod. Ampithoe qeshmensis sp. nov. is characterized by round and reduced distoventral spur on uropod 1 in male, mandibular palp article 3 longer than second one, robust seta on palm of second male gnathopod, and longer flagellum than peduncular article 5 on the second antenna.
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