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Amphyllodomus incurvaria gen. et sp.n. (Crustacea, Amphipoda), a Remarkable Leaf‐cutting Amphithoid from the Marine Shallows of Barbados
Author(s) -
JUST JEAN
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1978.tb00774.x
Subject(s) - biology , amphipoda , crustacean , algae , brown algae , ecology , zoology , botany
Amphyllodomus incurvaria gen. et sp.n. is described and figured. The species lives among hydroids and algae and has a remarkable domiciliary biology in that it carries around a house built of two oval pieces of brown algae cut out by the animal itself. The species is placed in the Amphithoidae, but certain deviations from that family place it in an isolated position.