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Published: 2009-10-08
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Oedicerotidae

Crustacea Section, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia
Crustacea Section, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia
Crustacea Amphipoda Oedicerotidae Great Barrier Reef Australia taxonomy new species Aborolobatea insidiosa Monoculodes tropicalis Perioculodes talboti

Abstract

Three genera and three new species of oedicerotid amphipods are reported from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. The third species of southern hemisphere Monoculodes, Monoculodes tropicalis sp. nov., is the first in the genus with calceoli on the female antenna 2.

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