A new species of Pontocrates boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) from Cyprus

Sergio C. Garcia Gómez; Alan A. Myers; Eleni Avramidi; Kleopatra Grammatiki; Myrsini M. Lymperaki; Vasilis Resaikos; Magdalene Papatheodoulou; Vasilis Louca; Dimitrios Xevgenos; Frithjof C. Küpper

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5474.1.5

A new species of Pontocrates boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) from Cyprus

Sergio C. Garcia Gómez
, Alan A. Myers
, Eleni Avramidi
, Kleopatra Grammatiki
, Myrsini M. Lymperaki
, Vasilis Resaikos
, Magdalene Papatheodoulou
, Vasilis Louca
, Dimitrios Xevgenos
, Frithjof C. Küpper

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Abstract

A new species of the amphipod genus Pontocrates (Boeck 1871), family Oedicerotidae, is described from Cyprus in the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is a sister taxon to Pontocrates moorei (Myers & Ashelby 2022), currently recorded solely from the British Isles. It is the third species of Pontocrates now known to occur in the Mediterranean Sea.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Pages (from-to)	59-67
Number of pages	9
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	5474
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.1.5
Publication status	Published - 2024

Keywords

Amphipoda
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Oedicerotidae Pontocrates marmario
new species

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A new species of Pontocrates boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) from Cyprus

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