New and little known corophiidean amphipods from the 'Lucky Strike' hydrotherma...

• Author(s): Myers, Alan A. ; Cunha, Marina R.
• Date: 2004
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/10305
• Origin: RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro
• Subject(s): Crustacea; Amphipoda; Hydrothermal vents; Mid Atlantic Ridge
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Two species of corophiid amphipods are described from the `Lucky Strike' hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the Acores. One species, Bonnierella compar sp. nov is new to science, the other, Autonoe longicornis has not been reported since the original description of a single female in 1909. Full descriptions are provided of the new species, and of the previously unknown male of A. longicornis. IOC-UNESCO - Training Through Research