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Published: 2009-10-08
Page range: 339–343
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Cheluridae

Humboldt-University, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Abteilung Sammlungen, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
University of Konstanz, Department of Biology, Evolutionary Biology, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
Crustacea Amphipoda Cheluridae Great Barrier Reef Australia taxonomy Tropichelura insulae

Abstract

Tropichelura insulae (Calman, 1910), a species living in excavations in wooden logs together with limnoriid Isopoda, is redescribed from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef Australia. This species has enlarged first gnathopods, three teeth on the posterior margin of pleonite 3 and the peculiar uropods and telson that are characteristic for the family Cheluridae.

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