Open AccessPhoxocephalidae
Author(s) -
Joanne Taylor
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
zootaxa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.621
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1175-5334
pISSN - 1175-5326
DOI - 10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.44
Subject(s) - biology , great barrier reef , amphipoda , zoology , ecology , crustacean , reef
Nine species from three genera of Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) are reported from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Seven species are new to science including five species of Birubius Barnard & Drummond, 1976: Birubius banksi sp. nov., Birubius casuarina sp. nov., Birubius kingae sp. nov., Birubius oti sp. nov. and Birubius parvus sp. nov.; one species of Limnoporeia Fearn-Wannan, 1968: Limnoporeia cooki sp. nov. and one species of Metaphoxus Bonnier, 1896: Metaphoxus varanus sp. nov. Limnoporeia woorake Barnard & Drummond, 1978 is reported for the first time from the Great Barrier Reef and more records of Birubius batei (Haswell, 1879) are reported, prompting the designation of a neotype for the species. These records expand the number of phoxocephalid species previously recorded from the Great Barrier Reef.