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Haploginglymus morenoi (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Niphargidae) a new interstitial Iberian species with unusual maxilliped

TitleHaploginglymus morenoi (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Niphargidae) a new interstitial Iberian species with unusual maxilliped
Publication TypeArticolo su Rivista peer-reviewed
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsIannilli, Valentina, Minelli A., and Ruffo Sandro
JournalBollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Botanica Zoologia
Volume33
Pagination105-112
ISSN1590-8399
KeywordsHaploginglymus morenoi n. sp., interstitial environments, saltationary evolution, transformed maxilliped
Abstract

We describe here Haploginglymus morenoi n.sp. (Amphipoda Gammaridea Niphargidae) from the freshwater interstitial environment along Rio Mataraña, Beceite (Aragón), North-Eastern Spain. Sediment in the type locality is very fine-grained. Peculiar to the new species is article 6 of the maxilliped palp, which is spoon-like, with finely ciliated distal margin, rather than having the usual shape as a dactylus provided with a claw. Further diagnostic characters are provided by the sexually dimorphic gnathopods II and by the very elongated dactylus of pereiopods 6 and 7, whose claw is extremely short. One of the specimens of the type series is anomalous, in that its maxilliped has a pretty normal left dactylus, the right one being however shaped as in the other specimens of this species.

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