Ceradocus woorree Berents 1983
Creators: name: Krapp-Schickel, Traudl
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Maeridae
Ceradocus
Ceradocus woorree

description: <i>Ceradocus woorree</i> Berents, 1983 (Fig. 9, 10, Pl. 4E) <i>Ceradocus woorree</i> Berents, 1983:106, figs 5, 6. — Lowry &amp; Stoddart, 2003: 176. <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype: male, 6.9 mm, AM P31714, eastern end of Mangrove Beach, Lizard Island (14°41'S 145°27.5'E), from sediment, 1.5 m depth (QLD 37). Paratype, male, 5.9 mm, AM P31715, Casuarina Beach, Lizard Island (14°40.5'S, 145°26.6'E), under stones at low tide mark (QLD 39). <b>Type locality.</b> Lizard Island. Great Barrier Reef, Australia (14 o 41’S 145 o 27.5’E). <b>Description.</b> Based on holotype, male, 6.9 mm, AM P31714. <b>Head.</b> <i>Head</i> subocular notch present, narrow. <i>Antenna 1</i> longer than antenna 2; peduncle and flagellum subequal; peduncular articles 1 and 2 subequal, accessory flagellum with 5 articles. <i>Antenna 2</i> peduncle 3 times as long as flagellum, gland cone extending beyond article 3; flagellum with 11 articles. <i>Mandible</i> palp article 1 distally acutely lengthened. <i>Maxilla 1</i> inner plate quadrate. <i>Maxilla 2</i> inner plate ovate, with mediofacial row of setae. <b>Pereon.</b> <i>Gnathopod 1</i> coxa subquadrate with anterodistally pointed and lengthened corner; propodus 0.9 x length of carpus. <i>Gnathopod 2</i> asymmetrical, large palm transverse or nearly transverse, but palm much shorter than remaining posterior margin of propodus; in small gnathopod 2 propodus palm not defined, posterior margin smooth and rounded. <i>Pereopod 5</i> basis posterior margin smooth, posterodistal corner lengthened into rounded lobe. <i>Pereopods 6-7</i> basis posterior margin weakly serrated, posterodistal corner rectangular. <b>Pleon.</b> Epimeron 1–3 all margins smooth, posterodistal corner a little lengthened and upturned. <i>Uropod 3</i> peduncle half as long as rami; rami subequal, leaf-like, broadend, outer ramus with small distal robust setae; distally rounded, not truncated. <i>Telson</i> longer than wide, deeply cleft, apices distally pointed, each lobe with one larger and 2 smaller robust setae and one plumose seta. <b>Female</b> (sexually dimorphic characters). No sexual difference. <b>Habitat.</b> In sediment and under stones, 1.5 m depth. <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Ceradocus woorree</i> is the only <i>Ceradocus</i> on the GBR without dorsal serrations on pleonites 1–3. According to Berents (1983) <i>C. woorree</i> is most similar to <i>C. aviceps</i> K.H. Barnard (1940) from South Africa. <b>Distribution.</b> <i>Australia</i>. Queensland: Lizard Island (Berents 1983).
description: Published as part of <i>Krapp-Schickel, Traudl, 2009, Maeridae, the Ceradocus group *, pp. 598-642 in Zootaxa 2260 (1)</i> on page 610, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.32, http://zenodo.org/record/5309853
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