AMPHIPOD CRUSTACEANS FROM ANCHIHALINE CAVE WATERS OF THE GALAPAGOS-ISLANDS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Three species of blind Amphipoda are recorded from anchihaline cave waters in the Galapagos Islands. One of these, Galapsiellus leleuporum (Monod, 1970) was previously know from the islands; the male is described for the first time. The other two belong to families with predominantly (though not exclusively) deepsea members: Valettietta cavernicola sp. nov. (family Lysianassidae; and Antronicippe serrata gen. et sp. nov. (family Pardaliscidae). The genus Valettietta was not previously recorded from caves; it contained two abyssal species in the Atlantic, while a third species was recorded from the Pacific in a vertical haul between 0 and 5300 m. Antronicippe is closely related to Spelaeonicippe, a genus with two species known from anchihaline caves in the Canary Islands and the West Indies. Copyright 1990, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

published proceedings

  • ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

author list (cited authors)

  • STOCK, J. H., & ILIFFE, T. M.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • STOCK, JH||ILIFFE, TM

publication date

  • January 1990