Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
ISSN
0006-324X
Publication Date
1979
Abstract
During research in coastal marshes of the Mississippi Delta region in 1975, a large, undescribed amphipod belonging to the genus Cerapus was discovered in tidal channels. This new species, C. benthophilus, is characterized by its large size and 7-12 segmented antennal flagella. Habitat preference is muddy silt bottoms upon which it constructs conspicuous mats or "tufts" of interwoven tubes in shallow coastal bays and marshes from Louisiana to the panhandle areas of northern Florida.
Volume
92
Issue
1
First Page
98
Last Page
105
Additional Comments
NSF grant #: DEB77-15883
NSUWorks Citation
James Darwin Thomas and Richard W. Heard. 1979. A New Species of Cerapus Say, 1817 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, with Notes on its Ecology .Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , (1) : 98 -105. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/610.
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