Ampithoe kava Myers 1985
Creators: name: Peart, R. A.
name: Hughes, L. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Ampithoidae
Ampithoe
Ampithoe kava

description: <i>Ampithoe kava</i> Myers, 1985 (Figures 1–4) <i>Ampithoe ramondi</i> J.L. Barnard, 1970, p. 50, figs 18, 19. Ledoyer, 1984, p. 13, fig. 4. Lowry, 2007, p. 282 (checklist). <i>Amphithoe kava</i> Myers, 1985, pp. 21–22, fig. 15. <i>Ampithoe kava</i> Myers, 1986b; Lyons and Myers, 1990, p. 1200, figs 3, 4. Poore and Lowry, 1997, p. 909, figs 6–9. Myers, 1997; Lowry and Stoddart, 2003, p. 60 (catalogue). Appadoo and Myers, 2004, p. 333 (key). Peart, 2007b: 42–44, figs 30, 31 (key). Hughes and Lowry, 2009, pp. 161–164, figs 5, 6. <i>Type locality</i> Taunovo Bay Viti Levu, Fiji. <i>Material examined</i> New Caledonia: Male, 5 mm, dissected, three slides, AM P.82835, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 1.5 m, coral rubble, 30 October 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-3); female, 4 mm, dissected, one slide, AM P.82836, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18.23 ′ S, 166 ◦ 26.15 ′ E), 1.5 m, coral rubble, 30 October 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-3); few specimens, AM P.82837, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 1.5 m, coral rubble, 30 October 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-3); two specimens, AM P.82839, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 1.0 m, brown alga <i>Sargassum</i> sp., 4 November 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-20); few specimens, AM P.82840, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 1.0 m, brown alga <i>Sargassum</i> sp., 4 November 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-21); two specimens, AM P.82838, Anse Vata, Pointe Bagay (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 0.3 m, brown alga <i>Sargassum</i> sp., 1 November 1996, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-16); 1 specimen AM P.82841, Recif Goro (22 ◦ 19 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 23 ′ 18 ′′ E), 1.0 m, coral rubble, 5 November 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-23). <i>Remarks</i> Male specimens from New Caledonia have consistently fewer articles (four articles) in the flagellum of antenna 2 than material originally described by Myers (1985) from the Fijian Islands (six articles). <i>Habitat</i> Found in coral rubble, seagrasses, macroalgae, sponges, red algae, branching coral <i>Pocillopora</i> sp., green calcareous alga <i>Halimeda</i> sp., brown algae <i>Turbinaria</i> sp. and <i>Sargassum</i> sp. <i>Distribution</i> New Caledonia (Ledoyer 1984; current study); Fijian Islands (Myers 1985); Hawaiian Islands (Pacific Ocean); Tonga (Myers 1986b); Western Samoa (Myers 1997); Australia (Poore and Lowry 1997; Hughes and Lowry 2009); Red Sea (Lyons and Myers 1990).
description: Published as part of <i>Peart, R. A. &amp; Hughes, L. E., 2013, Ampithoid amphipods from the South Pacific: Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, pp. 739-861 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (13 - 14)</i> on pages 741-746, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.825027, http://zenodo.org/record/5198865
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