A New Species of Cerapus Say, 1817 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, with Notes on its Ecology

Authors

James Darwin Thomas, Newfound Harbor Marine InstituteFollow
Richard W. Heard, Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1979

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

ISSN

0006-324X

Volume

92

Issue/No.

1

First Page

98

Last Page

105

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.

Comments

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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.