Polycheria josephensis

Familia: Dexaminidae
Genus: Polycheria
Species: Polycheria josephensis

Polycheria josephensis Foster & Thoma, 2016

ZooBank: 043D6B70-275D-40C3-8074-01C94503A821 [nonfunctional]

Holotype: male, 4.2 mm, USNM 1297736

Host: Eudistoma sp.

Type locality: 11 June 2004, St. Joseph Bay, Florida, 200 m northwest of Blacks Island, 29°43.73’N 85°19.23’W, depth 1.0 m, 35 ppt, 32ºC, coll. J.M. Foster and B.P. Thoma.

Paratypes: 5 vials. 4 males, 14 females, 6 females, 7 males, 26 unsexed; USNM 1297737-1297741, host Didemnum sp., St. Joseph Bay, Florida, 200 meters north of Blacks Island, 29°47.73 N 85°19.82 W, depth 1.0-2.0 m, 35 ppt, 32°C, coll. J Foster and B. Thoma.

Etymology: refers to the type locality, St. Joseph Bay (Gulf County, Florida).

• Foster, J.M., Thoma, B.P. 2016. Polycheria josephensis, a new species of symbiotic amphipod (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Dexaminidae) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, with notes on its ecology. Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(1): 23-31. DOI: 10.3897/zse.92.5789 . Reference page. 

Links

• Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Coleman, C.O.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Sket, B.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2020). World Amphipoda Database. Polycheria josephensis Foster & Thoma, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871485 on 2020-06-20
• BHL bibliography
• Polycheria josephensis – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Polycheria josephensis.
• ION

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