Name: New Australian Species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and Eastern Australia with a Key to Australian Species
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Six new species of Ampeliscidae are described: Ampelisca capella sp. nov., Ampelisca mingela sp. nov., Byblis pialba sp. nov. and Byblis wadara sp. nov. from the Great Barrier Reef; Ampelisca katoomba sp. nov. from the New South Wales shelf; and Byblis liena sp. nov. from the Queensland slope. Byblisoides esferis J. L. Barnard, 1961 is recorded from southeastern Australia, the first record of the genus in Australia. These bring the number of eastern Australian species to twenty-six.

Citation

Poore, Gary C. B., and James K. Lowry. 2023. New Australian species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and eastern Australia with a key to Australian species. In Festschrift in Honour of James K. Lowry, ed. P. B. Berents, S. T. Ahyong, A. A. Myers, and L. Fanini. Records of the Australian Museum 75(4): 519–533. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890

Published

February 14, 2025 at 06:22

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February 14, 2025 at 06:27

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URL

https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=am_ampeliscidae

Archive

https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=am_ampeliscidae

Contacts

Gary Poore
Museums Victoria

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

total submitted occurrences

accepted occurrences

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
decimalLatitude	3	10.0%
decimalLongitude	3	10.0%
eventDate	10	33.3%
maximumDepthInMeters	13	43.3%
minimumDepthInMeters	13	43.3%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	13	43.3%
ON_LAND	7	23.3%
NO_COORD	3	10.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1	3.3%

New Australian Species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and Eastern Australia with a Key to Australian Species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data