Abstract

The present report is not concerned with a large number of new species. Of these there are only thirteen. They are distributed among the same number of genera, of which three are new. Incidentally also a new genus, Parawaldeckia, is instituted for a species previously called Nannonyx thomsoni, from New Zealand, and not as yet recorded in Australian waters. The new genus Ochlesis is worthy of note, since by the character of its maxillipeds it forms a link between the Gammaridea and the Hyperiidea. For this reason it appears to justify the institution of a new family, the Ochlesidae. In all, forty-four species have been identified among the specimens of the "Thetis" collection. In the genera Eusiroides, Eurystheus and Icilius, it is possible that future stringency of specific determination may reduce the number of species here noted. Some reductions in regard to other genera are suggested in the report itself. Thus, the genus Vijaya, Walker, 1904, is made a synonym of Haswell's Amaryllis, and Walker's Gallea tecticauda, of the same date, loses its significant specific name by identification with Haswell's earlier Cyproidea ornata. Etc.

 
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Bibliographic Data

Short Form
Stebbing, 1910, Aust. Mus. Mem. 4(12): 567–658
Author
Thomas R. R. Stebbing
Year
1910
Title
Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Crustacea. Part V. Amphipoda
Serial Title
Australian Museum Memoir
Volume
4
Issue
12
Start Page
567
End Page
658
DOI
10.3853/j.0067-1967.4.1910.1508
Language
en
Plates
plates xlvii–lx [some plate numbers incorrectly duplicated in parts 11 and 12]
Date Published
06 July 1910
Cover Date
06 July 1910
ISSN (print)
0067-1967
CODEN
AUNMA5
Publisher
The Australian Museum
Place Published
Sydney, Australia
Subjects
CRUSTACEA: AMPHIPODA
Digitized
30 March 2009
Available Online
03 August 2009
Reference Number
1508
EndNote
1508.enw
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