Waldeckia kroyeri
Creators: name: Lowry, J. K.
name: Kilgallen, N. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Lysianassidae
Waldeckia
Waldeckia kroyeri

description: Waldeckia kroyeri (White, 1847b)
(Figs 15, 16 f)
Ephippiphora Kroyeri White, 1847a: 130 (nomen nudum). ― White, 1847b: 124. ― White, 1848: 227. Lysianassa Kröyeri. ― Bate, 1862: 65, pl. 10 fig. 4. ― Haswell, 1882: 233. ― Della Valle, 1893: 850. Socarnes kroyeri. ― Stebbing, 1906: 56.
Ephippiphora kroyeri. ― Clark & Presswell, 2001: 156.
Waldeckia kroyeri. ― Hale, 1927: 314. ― Hale, 1929: 208. ― J.L. Barnard, 1958: 102. ― Thurston & Allen, 1969: 373. Waldeckia kroyeri kroyeri. ― Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 172.
Socarnes kröyeri. ― Gurjanova, 1962: 303 (key).
Waldeckia kroyeri kroyeri. ― Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 542.
not Lysianassa Kröyeri. Thomson, 1879: 237 (= Parawaldeckia thomsoni). prob. not Ephippiphora kröyeri. ― Miers, 1884: 187 (list), 312.
not Lysianax kroyeri. ― Hutton, 1904: 258.
not Waldeckia kroyeri kroyeri. ― Pirlot, 1936: 268, fig. 105C (= W. selayarensis sp. nov.).
Types. Syntypes (of which only one specimen now available) BMNH 45.47 (Natural History Museum, London).
Type locality. Tasmania, Australia.
Material examined. South Australia: 3 specimens, AM P.71825, [SA-66] Gulf St Vincent (35°0.0’S 138°0.0’E), 31 Jan 1895, coll. A. Zeitz; 1 male, AM P.71824, [SA-19] Spencer Gulf, Cape Donington (34°44.0’S 135°59.0’E), 21/12/1970, 14 m, coll. N. Coleman; 1 female, AM P.71827 [795 C5/4] Spencer Gulf, Port Pirie, 7 km north-west of Port Davis Creek (33°16.0’S 137°51.0’E), 08/1979, Spencer Gulf Seagrass Survey, 9.3 m, coll. T.J. Ward.
Tasmania: 1 male, AM P.71823, 1.6 km west of Simpsons Point, D'Entrecasteaux Channel (43°19.0’S 147°10.0’E), 23/03/1970, coll. W.F. Ponder; 1 male, AM P.71821, [TAS-15] D’Entrecasteaux Channel (43°20.0’S 147°10.0’E), dredge, 9 m, coll. unknown; 1 female, AM P.71822, [TAS 17] Derwent Estuary, D'Entrecasteaux Channel (42°54.0’S 147°23.0’E), March 1940, 0.3 m, coll. Tasmanian Biological Survey, Fisheries Department. Western Australia: 1 female, E.4863.001 (on 3 slides), 96–128km west of Eucla, Great Australian Bight (32°13.93’S 127°42.6’E), March 1912, FIS Endeavour Expedition, coll. FIS Endeavour; 2 specimens, AM P.71826, western area of Great Australian Bight (33°5.0’S 128°40.0’E), 05/05/1962, coll. CSIRO Division of Fisheries.
Diagnostic description. Head lateral cephalic lobe large, narrowly rounded in male, broadly rounded in female. Antenna 1 peduncular article 1 without anterodistal projection. Labrum, epistome and upper lip fused. Mandible palp article 2 anterodistal margin setose; article 3 with marginal and apical setae. Labium without apical stylets on each lobe. Gnathopod 1 parachelate; basis anterior margin with slender setae; propodus posterior margin smooth. Gnathopod 2 minutely subchelate; carpus long; propodus palm transverse, concave; dactylus not fitting palm. Pereopod 6 basis posteroventral margin oblique. Pereopod 7 basis, posterior margin slightly rounded, serrate, posteroventral margin rounded. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner narrowly rounded. Urosomites 1–3 dorsally smooth. Uropod 1 rami subequal in length; uropod 2 inner ramus slightly shorter than outer ramus; uropod 3 inner ramus shorter than outer ramus, reaching article 2 of outer ramus.
Remarks. Waldeckia kroyeri is a large species confined to the temperate waters of the south Australian coast (fig. 16f). See remarks under W. selayarensis for further comments on the species.
Distribution. Australia: South Australia; Tasmania.
description: Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Kilgallen, N. M., 2014, A revision of the lysianassid genus Waldeckia with the description of four new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassidae, Waldeckiinae subfam. nov.), pp. 301-345 in Zootaxa 3784 (4) on page 324, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/227027