Cheiriphotis trifurcata, new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Corophiidae, Protomedeiinae) from the Seagrass Bed of the Lower Gulf of Thailand

By

Wongkamhaeng, Koraon
Abdul Rahim, Azman
Puttapreecha, Ratchaneekorn

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

187

Pages

71-89

Subjects

Amphipoda , Cheiriphotis trifurcata , Crustacea , Gulf of Thailand , Isaeidae , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.187.3219

 

Abstract

A new species of corophiid Amphipoda, Cheiriphotis trifurcata, collected from the seagrass bed of the Lower Gulf of Thailand, is described. Cheiriphotis trifurcata is characterized by its trifurcated tip of the modified setae on the outer ramus in male pleopod 3. In this paper, the new species is fully described and compared with related species and a complete key of the 16 valid species in the genus Cheiriphotis is given.