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Issue: Vol. 4161 No. 3: 6 Sept. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4161.3.8
Page range: 412–418
Abstract views: 89
PDF downloaded: 4

A new family, genus and species of freshwater amphipod Australomicroprotopus megacoxa gen. nov. sp. nov. (Senticaudata, Corophiidea, Microprotopoidea, Australomicroprotopidae fam. nov.) from Australia

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland.
Australian Museum Research Institute, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
Water Sciences, Natural Resources and Heritage, GHD, 180 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia. - PhD candidate, Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia.
Crustacea Amphipoda fresh-water taxonomy new family new genus new species Australia

Abstract

A new species of fresh-water amphipod is described from Australia. Australomicroprotopus megacoxa gen. nov. sp. nov. It is placed in a new family, the Australomicroprotopidae fam. nov. and is fully described and figured.

 

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