Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Bulletin of Marine Science
ISSN
0007-4977
Publication Date
9-1999
Abstract
Moolapheonoides utmas, new species, is described from coral reefs at Madang, Papua New Guinea. M. utmas differs from other species in the genus by the large tooth-cusp projecting posteroventrally on article 2 of pereopod 7 and the lower dorsal crest of the urosome. It shares an unusual dorsolateral bulbous projection of pereonite segments 3 and 4 with other cyproideid species Hoplopohoenoides obessa Shoemaker from Florida, and Naraphoenoides mullaya Barnard from Australia. Identification keys for the genus Moolaphoenoides are presented and relationships to other genera in the family are discussed.
Volume
65
Issue
2
First Page
515
Last Page
521
NSUWorks Citation
James Darwin Thomas. 1999. Moolapheonoides utmas, New Species, from Coral Reefs in the Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea (Amphipoda, Cyproideidae) .Bulletin of Marine Science , (2) : 515 -521. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/581.
Comments
This research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (DEB-89-15688), and the National Geographic Society, (Nos. 3723-87 and 4421-90) to the author.