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, Griffiths, Huw, Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2020
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; South Shetland Islands; South Orkney Islands
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526354/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526354/1/zlz145.pdf; https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz145/5686233

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 Shetland Isl...