Megamphopus ...

• Main Authors: Bakir, Kerem, Sezgin, Murat, Myers, Alan A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Isaeidae; Megamphopus; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6186309; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6186309

Key to the species of Megamphopus from the North-East Atlantic, Mediterranean and associated seas 1. Gnathopod 2 grossly enlarged, at least twice size of gnathopod 1 (males).......................................... 2 - Gnathopod 2 not larger or only a little larger than gnathopod 1 (females).......................................... 6 2. Male coxa 2 much deeper than broad...................................................................... 3 - Male coxa 2 subsquare................................................................................. 4 3. Male gnathopod 2 dactylus more than two thirds length of propodus..................... M. longicornis Chevreux, 1911 - Male gnathopod 2 dactylus very short, less than half length of propodus................... M. brevidactylus Myers, 1976 4. Male gnathopod 1 dactylus longer than propodus............................................ M. katagani sp. nov. - Male gnathopod 1 dactylus shorter than propodus............................................................ 5 ... : Published as part of Bakir, Kerem, Sezgin, Murat & Myers, Alan A., 2011, A new species of amphipod, Megamphopus katagani sp. nov. (Crustacea: Peracarida: Photidae) from the Sea of Marmara (Turkey), with a key to the species of Megamphopus in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and associated Seas, pp. 63-67 in Zootaxa 2791 on page 67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207651 ...