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Five new species of Cerapus from Australian waters (Amphipoda: Senticaudata: Ischyroceridae)

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Five new species of tube building amphipods in the genus Cerapus are described from Australian waters: Cerapus brevirostris sp. nov., C. chiltoni sp. nov., C. dildilgang sp. nov., C. lowryi sp. nov. and C. moonamoona sp. nov. All five new species build tubes from sediment or sediment and detritus. These bring the number of species of Cerapus in Australian waters to ten.

Citation: Berents, Penelope B. 2023. New species of Cerapus from Australian waters (Amphipoda: Senticaudata: Ischyroceridae). 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): 381-403. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1879

Published: February 14, 2025 at 06:20

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

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

Contacts:

Penelope Berents
Australian Museum

38
occurrence records
9
measurements and facts
5
taxa
5
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 1
2.6%
decimalLongitude 4
10.5%
eventDate 1 1
5.3%
maximumDepthInMeters 6
15.8%
minimumDepthInMeters 6
15.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 11
28.9%
NO_DEPTH 6
15.8%
NO_COORD 4
10.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data