Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Corophioidea 

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: Corophiidea
Infraordo: Corophiida
Superfamilia: Corophioidea

Familia: Ampithoidae
Subfamilia: Ampithoinae
Genus: Plumithoe
Species: Plumithoe acuticoxa

Name

  • Plumithoe acuticoxa Myers, 2012
Holotype: AM P35333, ♂.
Type locality: Makaluva Island, Viti Levu, Fiji, 13 August, 1979, coral debris from reef crest, A. A. Myers.
Etymology: Named after the shape of the coxa of the male gnathopod 1.

Mentions

  • Ampithoe hirsuta Myers, 1985, 22, figs. 13–14.
  • not Ampithoe pollex var hirsutus Ledoyer, 1978, 220, fig. 8.

References

  • Myers, Alan A., 2012: Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Palau, Micronesia: Families Ampeliscidae, Ampithoidae, Aoridae, Colomastigidae and Cyproideidae. ZooKeys 193: 1–25. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.193.3109 .
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