Ampithoidae and Maeridae Amphipods from Timor-Leste (Crustacea: Peracarida)
Creators: name: Hughes, L. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Parelasmopus cymatilis Lowry & Hughes, 2009    
Figs 20–21  
 Parelasmopus echo. —Berents, 1983: 136, fig. 27. —Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 186 (in part).   
 Parelasmopus cymatilis Lowry & Hughes, 2009: 691–695, figs. 27, 28. —Hughes, 2011: 71, 72.   
 not Parelasmopus echo J. L. Barnard, 1972a.   
 Type locality. Fringing reef between Bird Islet and South Island, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia (14°40' S 145°28' E).   
 Material examined. 1 male, 6.5 mm, dissected, 4 slides, AM P.90580, east of Dili, halfway between Hera and Metinaro, 150 m off shore, (8°31'01" S 125°42'05" E), 12–13 m, coral rubble bank, dead coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes & P.A. Hutchings, 23 September 2012 (TM 2012- 082); 1 male, 6.0 mm, dissected, 1 slide, AM P.90581, east of Dili, halfway between Hera and Metinaro, 150 m off shore, (8°31'01" S 125°42'05" E), 12–13 m, coral rubble bank, dead coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes & P.A. Hutchings, 23 September 2012 (TM 2012-082); 1 female, 9.0 mm, dissected, 1 slide, AM P.90582, east of Dili, halfway between Hera and Metinaro, 150 m off shore, (8°31'01" S 125°42'05" E), 12–13 m, coral rubble bank, dead coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes & P.A. Hutchings, 23 September 2012 (TM 2012-082); 1 female, 6.5 mm, dissected, 1 slide, AM P.90583, east of Dili, halfway between Hera and Metinaro, 150 m off shore, (8°31'01" S 125°42'05" E), 12–13 m, coral rubble bank, dead coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes & P.A. Hutchings, 23 September 2012 (TM 2012-082); many specimens, AM P.90569, east of Dili, halfway between Hera and Metinaro, 150 m off shore, (8°31'01" S 125°42'05" E),   
 12–13 m, coral rubble bank, dead coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes & P.A. Hutchings, 23 September 2012 (TM 2012- 082); 2 specimens, AM P.90579, east of Dili, halfway between Hera and Metinaro, 150 m off shore, (8°31'01" S 125°42'05" E), 12–13 m, coral rubble bank, dead coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes & P.A. Hutchings, 23 September 2012 (TM 2012-082); 4 specimens, AM P.90572, east of Dili, south side off Christu Rei Beach, coral slope (8°31'46" S 125°36'21" E), 5–10 m, dead coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes, 23 September 2012 (TM 2012-088); 2 females, AM P.90599, east of Dili, south side off Christo Rei Beach, coral slope (8°31'46" S 125°36'21" E), 5–10 m, dead coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes, 23 September 2012 (TM 2012-088); 4 specimens, AM P.90571, east of Metinaro, Secret Garden Reef (8°29'15" S 125°49'53" E), 19–21 m, coral rubble, coll. L.E. Hughes, 22 September 2012 (TM 2012-057); 1 specimen, AM P.90566, east of Cape Fatucama, 300 m off Jesus Backside Beach (8°31'16" S 125°36'46" E), 11.9 m, dead coral head, coll. L.E. Hughes & A. Reid, 19 September 2012 (TM 2012-020); 2 specimens, AM P.90570, east of Cape Fatucama, 300 m off Jesus Backside Beach (8°31'16" S 125°36'46" E), 12–15 m, dead coral rubble with epiphytic growth and sponges, coll. A. Murray, P.A. Hutchings, L.E. Hughes & A. Reid, 19 September 2012 (TM 2012-014); 4 specimens, AM P.90567, east of Atauro Island, outer reef, dense coral reef slope (8°13'48" S 125°36'57" E), 17 m, green alga Halimeda sp., coll. L.E. Hughes, 20 September 2012 (TM 2012-087); 2 specimens, AM P.90568, east of Atauro Island, inner reef, reef slope (8°14'30" S 125°36'49" E), 14 m, mixed turfing algae, coll. L.E. Hughes, 20 September 2012 (TM 2012-034).   
 Distribtution. Timor-Leste (current study). Australia: Queensland (Berents, 1983; Lowry & Hughes, 2009); Northern Territory and Western Australia (Hughes, 2011).
description: Published as part of Hughes, L. E., 2015, Ampithoidae and Maeridae Amphipods from Timor-Leste (Crustacea: Peracarida), pp. 83-108 in Records of the Australian Museum 67 (3) on page 99, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.67.2015.1644, http://zenodo.org/record/4684960