A review of the scopelocheirid amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea), with the description of new taxa from Australian waters

By

Kilgallen, Niamh
Lowry, Jim

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

91

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

1--43

Subjects

Australia , Austrocallisoma , new genus , new species , Paracallisominae , Scopelocheiridae , Scopelocheirinae , Tayabasa

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.8440

 

Abstract

Scopelocheiridae is a small family of scavenging lysianassoid amphipods. There is a distinct shallow water group (Scopelocheirinaesubfam. n.) and a distinct deep-sea group (Paracallisominaesubfam. n.). We catalogue three genera and eight species in the scopelocheirines and move Scopelocheirus onagawae Takekawa & Ishimaru, 2000 to the genus Aroui. The deep-sea paracallisomines are not often collected and consequently their morphological diversity is not well understood. We catalogue seven genera and 15 species. We provide diagnostic descriptions and a key to all genera in the Scopelocheiridae. We describe two new genera, Austrocallisoma gen. n. and Tayabasa gen. n., and three new species from Australian waters, Austrocallisoma jerryi sp. n., Paracallisoma woolgoolga sp. n. and P. zivianii sp. n.