Ampithoe Leach 1814
Creators: name: Peart, Rachael A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Ampithoidae
Ampithoe

description: Key to males of Australian Ampithoe   
1 Uropod 1 distoventral spur present, rounded and reduced in male and absent in female; pereopods 5–7 prehensile; telsonic cusps large (Fig. 49).................................................................................................. 17  
- Uropod 1 distoventral spur absent on both male and female; pereopods 5–7 simple; telsonic cusps small or absent (Fig. 65)............................................................................................................................................ 2  
2 Gnathopod 1 palm excavate (Fig. 52).......................................................................................................... 3  
- Gnathopod 1 palm straight or convex (Fig. 60)........................................................................................... 7  
3 Gnathopod 2 palm without midmedial tooth (Fig. 52)................................................................................ 4  
- Gnathopod 2 palm with midmedial tooth (Fig. 20)..................................................................................... 6  
4 Gnathopod 1 palm with midmedial tooth (Fig. 52)..................................................................................... 5  
 - Gnathopod 1 palm without midmedial tooth (Fig. 41)................................ A. ngana Poore & Lowry, 1997   
 5 Uropod 3 peduncle without marginal robust setae (Fig. 53) ........................................ A. peronana sp. nov.   
 - Uropod 3 peduncle with marginal robust setae (Fig. 13) ............................................... A. eremitis sp. nov.   
 6 Gnathopod 2 palm excavate (Fig. 20) ................................................................................. A. hiana sp. nov.   
 - Gnathopod 2 palm entire (Fig. 56) ......................................................................... A. pseudongana sp. nov.   
7 Gnathopod 2 propodus subrectangular (Fig. 6)........................................................................................... 8  
- Gnathopod 2 propodus ovoid, subtriangular or rounded (Fig. 64)............................................................ 10  
 8 Gnathopod 2 palm midmedial tooth absent (Fig. 6) ..................................... A. caddi Poore & Lowry, 1997   
- Gnathopod 2 palm midmedial tooth present (Fig. 60)................................................................................. 9  
 9 Gnathopod 2 propodus produced anterodistally to form a setose lobe (Fig. 60) ....... Ampithoe roly sp. nov.   
 - Gnathopod 2 propodus not produced to form a lobe (Fig. 24) .......................................... A. hyalos sp. nov.   
10 Gnathopod 2 palm with midmedial tooth (Fig. 64)................................................................................... 11  
- Gnathopod 2 palm without midmedial tooth (Fig. 28).............................................................................. 14  
11 Gnathopod 1 carpal lobe subacute (Fig. 64).............................................................................................. 12  
- Gnathopod 1 carpal lobe rounded (Fig. 38)............................................................................................... 13  
 12 Gnathopod 2 dactylus shorter than palm (Fig. 64) .......................................................... A. rosema sp. nov.   
 - Gnathopod 2 dactylus overeaching the palm (Fig. 16) ............................................... A. geographe sp. nov.   
 13 Pereopod 6 basis with marginal robust setae (Fig. 39) ............................................... A. merimbula sp. nov.   
 - Pereopod 6 basis without marginal robust setae (Fig. 4) .................................................. A. boiana sp. nov.   
14 Gnathopod 2 without densely setose margins (Fig. 28)............................................................................. 15  
- Gnathopod 2 with long non-plumose setae on margins (Fig. 72).............................................................. 16  
 15 Gnathopod 2 basis posterodistal lobe with robust setae on the margin (Fig. 28) .... Ampithoe katae sp. nov.   
 - Gnathopod 2 basis posterodistal lobe with slender setae on the margin (Fig. 9) Ampithoe cookana sp. nov.   
 16 Gnathopod 1 palm with midmedial tooth (Fig. 72) ....................................................... A. ulladulla sp. nov.   
 - Gnathopod 1 palm without midmedial tooth (Fig. 44) .................................................. A. ningaloo sp. nov. 17 Gnathopod 2 propodal palm incised (Fig. 31)........................................................................................... 18   
- Gnathopod 2 propodal palm entire (Fig. 68)............................................................................................. 19  
 18 Antenna 2 poorly setose (Fig. 31) ................................................................................. A. kava Myers, 1985   
 - Antenna 2 with short dense setae on the margins (Fig. 47) .......................................... A. parakava sp. nov.   
 19 Gnathopod 2 basis lobe with 3 marginal slender setae (Fig. 68) ..................................... A. rotunda sp. nov.   
 - Gnathopod 2 basis lobe with 3 marginal robust setae (Fig. 34) .................................... A. meganae sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Peart, Rachael A., 2007, A review of the Australian species of Ampithoe Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with descriptions of seventeen new species, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 1566 (1) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1566.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5096061