A new species of Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000 (Amphipoda: Senticaudata: Maeridae) from the east coast of Florida, USA
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A new species of marine amphipod of the genus Quadrimaera is described from material collected from Crandon Park, Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida, USA, associated to Penicillus spp. about 0.5 m water depth. The differences with the closer species are also presented.
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Crustacea, Peracarida, Atlantic Ocean
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Garm, A. & Watling, L. (2013). The crustacean integument: setae, setules, and other ornamentation. In L. Watling and M. Thiel (Eds.), The natural history of the crustacea. functional morphology and diversity (pp. 167–198). Oxford University Press.
Horton, T., Lowry, J., De Broyer, C., Bellan-Santini, D., Coleman, C. O., Costello, M. J., Daneliya, M., Dauvin, J., Fišer, C., Gasca, R., Grabowski, M., Guerra-García, J. M., Hendrycks, E., Hughes, L., Jaume, D., Jazdzewski, K., Kim, Y., King, R., Krapp-Schickel, T., …& Zeidler, W. (2022). World Amphipoda Database. Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 11, 2022, from https:// www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236533.
Krapp-Schickel, T. (2000). Pitfall genus Maera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae). Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii, 47(3–4), 413–440.
Myers, A. A. (1985). Shallow-water, coral reef, and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 5, 1–143.
Poore, A. G. B. & Lowry, J. K. (1997). New ampithoid amphipods from Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 11(6), 897–941.
Ruffo, S., Krapp, T., & Gable, M. F. (2000). The genus Maera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Bermuda. Postilla, 221, 3–35.
Schellenberg, A. (1938). Litorale Amphipoden des tropischen Pazifiks. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 16(6), 105–148.
Senna, A. R. & Serejo, C. S. (2007). Two new species of Quadrimaera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Atol das Rocas, Brazil. Zootaxa, 1593, 55–67.
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Varela, C., Iporac, L., & Senna, A. R. (2023). A new species of Quadrimaera Krapp-Schickel & Ruffo, 2000 (Amphipoda: Senticaudata: Maeridae) from the east coast of Florida, USA. Novitates Caribaea, (21), 29–39. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi21.325
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