A New Marine Genus of the Maera Group (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Belize

Authors

James Darwin Thomas, Newfound Harbor Marine InstituteFollow
J. L. Barnard, Smithsonian Institution

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

ISSN

0006-324X

Publication Date

1985

Abstract

A new genus and species, Dumosus atari of the Maera group from coral rubble at Belize is described. It is related to Gammarella and is probably cryptic. The eyes are reduced. Dumosus differs from Gammarella in the loss of medial setation on the maxillae, reduction of article 3 on the mandibular palp, loss of article 2 on the outer ramus ofuropod 3, and in the loss of major spination on the plates of maxilla I and the maxilliped; in contrast to Gammarella, Dumosus retains the plesiomorphic uropod 3 typical of the Maera-group.

Volume

98

Issue

3

First Page

630

Last Page

635

Comments

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Additional Comments

NSF grant #: DEB8121128

NSUWorks Citation

James Darwin Thomas and J. L. Barnard. 1985. A New Marine Genus of the Maera Group (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Belize .Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , (3) : 630 -635. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/605.