Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Leucothoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Amphipoda
Subordo: Amphilochidea
Infraordo: Amphilochida
Parvordo: Amphilochidira
Superfamilia: Leucothoidea

Familia: Anamixidae
Genus: Anamixis
Species: Anamixis sentan

Name

  • Anamixis sentan White & Reimer, 2012
Holotype: RUMF-ZC-1837, ♂.
Type locality: Japan, Sunabe Seawall, Okinawa–jima Island, Okinawa, spur and groove reef (26°19'25"N, 127°44'43"E), among coral rubble, 3–12 m, K.N. White and N.S. White, col., 17 February 2011.
Etymology: After the Japanese word ‘sentan’, meaning ‘pointy end’ and referring to the angular head and ventral cephalic keel (pronounced sen-tahn).

References

  • Kristine N. White; James Davis Reimer, 2012: Commensal Leucothoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Part III: coral rubble-dwellers. ZooKeys, 173: 11–50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.173.2498 .
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