Apocorophium acutum Chevreux 1908

• Main Authors: Hossain, M. Belal, Hughes, L. E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Corophiidae; Apocorophium; Apocorophium acutum; Chevreux; Crawford; Hurley; Lowry; Myers; New Zealand; Pacific; Northwest Atlantic; ren
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6055500; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6055500

Apocorophium acutum (Chevreux, 1908) Figs 2–5. Corophium acutum Chevreux, 1908: 75, fig. 6.— Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 366, figs. 359, 374.— Schellenberg, 1928: 672, 673.— Shoemaker, 1934: 26, 27.— Crawford, 1937: 624, 625.— Salfi 1939: 31, fig. 4–7.— Lincoln, 1979: 534, fig. 256 a– d.— Hurley, 1954: 439 –442, fig. 3 (26–34).— Myers? 1982: 188, fig. 126.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991 a: 185.— Ren, 2006: 296 –297, fig. 117. Apocorophium acutum.— Bousfield & Hoover, 1997: 123 –125, fig. 35.— Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 89 (catalogue).— Bano & Kazmi, 2012: 113 (checklist).— Jung & Kim, 2007: 247 –250, fig. 1. Corophium ascherusicum.— K.H. Barnard, 1916: 272 (in part). Material examined. 1 male, 2.1 mm, dissected in part (A 1–2; G 1–2), 1 slide, SEM pin mount whole animal, AM P. 97897; 1 female, 3.6 mm, dissected, 3 slides, AM P. 97899; female 1 SEM pin mount, AM P. 97898; paratypes 20 specimens (6 male and 14 female), AM P. 97900, Sungai Brunei Estuary, Brunei River, Brunei, South China Sea (48 ° 45 ′– 58 °02′N 114 ° 858 ′– 115 ° 810 ′E), 0.5–1.5 m, from intertidal hard substratum, attached to green algal mat, June 2012, coll. M. Belal Hossain. Type locality. Annaba, Algeria. Remarks. Apocorophium acutum is reported from a wide range of localities. The synonymy here comprehensively includes all taxonomic citations of the species. Illustrations by Bousfield & Hoover, 1997 in their review do not have the distal projection on antennae 2 which is present in all other illustrated reports of Apocorophium acutum. Distribution. South China Sea: Brunei (current study; Ren 2006). Algeria (Chevreux 1908). British Isles (Crawford 1937; Lincoln 1979). Mediterranean (Chevreux & Fage 1925; Myers 1982). Suez Canal (Schellenberg 1928). South Africa (Crawford 1937). New Zealand (Crawford 1937; Hurley 1954). Australia (Lowry & Stoddart 2003). Korea (Jung & Kim 2007). Pakistan (Bano & Kazmi 2012), Northeast Pacific (Crawford 1937, Bousfield & Hoover 1997). Northwest Atlantic (Shoemaker 1934). ...