A new Southern Ocean species in the remarkable and rare amphipod family Podosiridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) questions existing systematic hypotheses

• Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• Main Authors: Ashford, Oliver S, Horton, Tammy, Roterman, Christopher N, Thurston, Michael H, Griffiths, Huw J, Brandt, Angelika
• Other Authors: National Oceanography Centre, Climate Linked Atlantic Section Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2019
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Southern Ocean; South Shetland Islands; South Orkney Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz145; http://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-pdf/190/2/613/33826384/zlz145.pdf

Abstract The amphipod family Podosiridae is unusual in that it combines morphological elements of the disparate families Podoceridae and Eusiridae. Here, we describe a new species in the family from specimens collected from the Southern Ocean in the vicinity of the South Orkney Islands and South She...