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

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Repository URL https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/
Node OBIS Australia
Published2025-02-14 06:20
First registered2025-02-14 06:27
Abstract

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.

CitationBerents, 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
Citation IDhttps://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1879
RightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License
Keywords Occurrence, Specimen
Contacts
Creator Penelope Berents
Australian Museum
Contact Penelope Berents
Australian Museum
Metadata Provider OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Publisher OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

Statistics

Occurrence records 34
Species level 34
Absence records 0
Event records 0
MoF records 9
Sequence records 0
Species 5
Taxa 5
Time range 1892 - 2009

This dataset has appeared in 303 downloads in 2025, with a total of 7,783 records.

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 4
Not marine 0
No WoRMS match 0
No coordinates 4
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 0

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 1 0
decimalLongitude 4 0
eventDate 1 0
maximumDepthInMeters 6 0
minimumDepthInMeters 6 0

Spatial issues

Records on land 11
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 0

Top taxa

IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Cerapus lowryi Berents, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
12
Cerapus dildilgang Berents, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
9
Cerapus brevirostris Berents, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
5
Cerapus chiltoni Berents, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
4
Cerapus moonamoona Berents, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
4

Distribution

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Measurement types

measurementType measurementTypeID Records
Sample method/device 8

Occurrences

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