Ericthonius Milne Edwards 1830

• Main Authors: Hughes, Lauren E., Lowry, James K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Ischyroceridae; Ericthonius; Myers; Lowry; McGrath; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6256200; https://zenodo.org/record/6256200

Ericthonius Milne Edwards, 1830 The genus Ericthonius has undergone much revision (see Myers & McGrath 1984). Lowry & Berents (1996) considered Ericthonius and Pseudoericthonius to be paraphyletic taxa in a cladistic analysis of the ‘ Ericthonius ’ group, which established the Cerapus and Siphonoecetes clades as sister taxa. Myers & Lowry (2003) analysed Ericthonius as part of a much larger corophiidean phylogeny and placed the ‘ Ericthonius ’ group in the Photoidea: Ischyroceriidae: Ischyroceriinae: Siphonoecetini. In a review of the North­East Atlantic Ericthonius species Myers & McGrath (1984) divided the genus into two groups. The two new Australian species are part of ‘group one’ in which the gnathopod 2 coxa has stridulating ridges, coxa 2 is widely separated from coxa 1 and 3, and gnathopod 2 carpus has two teeth or one in some hyperadults. The six Australian species of Ericthonius can be divided based on the gnathopod 2 basis, broad in E. brevicarpus Vader & Myers, 1996, E. coxacanthus Moore, 1988 and E. tacticus Moore, 1988 and thin and elongate in E. forbesii sp. nov. , E. pugnax Dana, 1852 and E. rodneyi sp. nov. : Published as part of Hughes, Lauren E. & Lowry, James K., 2006, New species of Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Solitary Islands, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 1222 on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172578 : {"references": ["Milne Edwards, H. (1830) Extrait de recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des Crustaces amphipodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 20, 353 - 399, pls 10, 11.", "Myers, A. A. & McGrath, D. (1984) A revision of the north-east Atlantic species of Ericthonius (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 64, 379 - 400.", "Lowry, J. K. & Berents, P. B. (1996) The Ericthonius Group, a new perspective on an old problem (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Corophioidea). Records of the Australian Museum, 48, 75 - 109.", "Myers, A. A. & Lowry, J. K. (2003) A Phylogeny and a new classification of the Corophiidea Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 23 (2), 443 - 485.", "Vader, W. & Myers, A. A. (1996) Amphipods living in association with hermit crabs in SE Australia, Four new Ischyroceridae. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 20, 263 - 292.", "Moore, P. G. (1988) Taxonomic observations on the genera Xenocheira Haswell and Ericthonius Milne Edwards (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Australian coastal waters. Journal of Natural History, 22, 705 - 732.", "Dana, J. D. (1852) Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione Carolo Wilkes e Class Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars III. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science, 2, 201 - 220."]}