Titolo | Haploginglymus morenoi (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Niphargidae) a new interstitial Iberian species with unusual maxilliped |
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Tipo di pubblicazione | Articolo su Rivista peer-reviewed |
Anno di Pubblicazione | 2009 |
Autori | Iannilli, Valentina, Minelli A., and Ruffo Sandro |
Rivista | Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Botanica Zoologia |
Volume | 33 |
Paginazione | 105-112 |
ISSN | 1590-8399 |
Parole chiave | Haploginglymus 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. |
Citation Key | 978 |