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Illustrated Key to Ampelisca Species from the North-Eastern Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Jean-Claude Dauvin
Affiliation:
Station Biologique, CNRS-LP 4601 et Université P. & M. Curie (Paris VI), 29211 Roscoff, France
Denise Bellan-Santini
Affiliation:
Station Marine d'Endoume, rue Batterie des Lions, 13007 Marseille, France

Extract

The genus Ampelisca comprises more than 150 species and is one of the more important benthic genus of marine amphipods. New species are regularly added (Barnard & Agard 1986; Bellan-Santini & Marques, 1986; Goeke, 1987). Ampelisca are found from the intertidal zone to abyssal depths but most of them live on the continental shelf. In spite of many studies, it is often difficult to distinguish some species which are morphologically similar. In the last ten years, twenty-two species have been described from the north-eastern Atlantic (BellanSantini & Kaïm-Malka, 1977; Bellan-Santini & Dauvin, 1981, 1986; Dauvin & Bellan-Santini, 1982, 1985; Bellan-Santini & Marques, 1986). Materials come from MNHN of Paris collection, collected by Chevreux (1894–1924) (Dauvin & Bellan-Santini, 1985, 1986) and specimens collected during the last 25 years. All these new species are described from the Atlantic coast from northern Brittany to the Sahara and from the Mediterranean Sea.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1988

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