Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-28-2011
Publication Title
Zookeys
Keywords
Amphipod, Leucothoidae, Sponge, Coral reefs, French Polynesia
ISSN
1313-2989
Volume
92
First Page
1
Last Page
8
Abstract
Both leucomorph and anamorph developmental stages of Anamixis bananarama sp. n., are illustrated and described from shallow back reef environments of Moorea, French Polynesia. Distinguished by vestigial fi rst gnathopods that persist in post-transformational adult males, this is the second species in the genus to exhibit this unusual character. In other features such as coxae and second gnathopods A. bananarama sp. n. resembles other Pacific Plate endemics of Anamixis known from the region. Specific host association is not documented but suspected to be small calcareous asconoid sponges associated with coral rubble.
NSUWorks Citation
James Darwin Thomas and Traudl Krapp-Shickel. 2011. A New Species of Leucothoid Amphipod, Anamixis bananarama, sp. n., from Shallow Coral Reefs in French Polynesia (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Leucothoidae) .Zookeys : 1 -8. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/582.
DOI
10.3897/zookeys.92.1036
Comments
©JD Thomas, T Krapp-Schickel. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.