Cymadusa brevidactyla ( Chevreux 1907 )

Peart, R. A. & Hughes, L. E., 2013, Ampithoid amphipods from the South Pacific: Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (13 - 14), pp. 739-861 : 782-791

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scientific name	Cymadusa brevidactyla ( Chevreux 1907 )
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Cymadusa brevidactyla ( Chevreux 1907) View in CoL

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Grubia brevidactyla Chevreux, 1907, 1908 View in CoL , p. 517, figs 30–32.

Schellenberg, 1938, p. 87.

Cymadusa brevidactyla? Ledoyer, 1978, p. 223 View in CoL , fig. 11. Myers, 1985, p. 29, figs 18–19. Myers, 1986a, 1986b; Myers, 1989, 1990, p. 156. Myers, 1995b, p. 38. Myers, 1997; Barnard and Karaman, 1991; Ortiz and Lalana, 1999, p. 193. not C. brevidactyla View in CoL . Ren, 2001, 2006, pp. 218–220, fig. 82. (= C. cavimana View in CoL )

Type locality

Gambier Archipelago, Micronesia.

Material examined

Austral Isles: Male, 8 mm, dissected four slides, AM P.82821, Point Maomao, Ha’urei Bay , Rapa (27 ◦ 36 ′ 51 ′′ S, 144 ◦ 19 ′ 03 ′′ W), 0.5–2 m, rubble and sand, 17 August 1991, coll. J.K. Lowry (FRP-52); female, dissected, one slide, AM P.82822, Point Maomao, Ha’urei Bay , Rapa (27 ◦ 36 ′ 51 ′′ S, 144 ◦ 19 ′ 03 ′′ W), 0.5–2 m, rubble and sand, 17 August 1991, coll. J.K. Lowry (FRP-52); two specimens, AM P.82823, Point Maomao, Ha’urei Bay , Rapa (27 ◦ 36 ′ 51 ′′ S, 144 ◦ 19 ′ 03 ′′ W), 0.5–2 m, rubble and sand, 17 August 1991, coll. J.K. Lowry (FRP-52); several specimens, AM P.47072, Point Maomao, Ha’urei Bay , Rapa (27 ◦ 36 ′ 51 ′′ S, 144 ◦ 19 ′ 03 ′′ W), 2 m, loose coral rubble, 17 August 1991, coll. J.K. Lowry (FRP-51); many specimens, AM P.47073, Point Maomao, Ha’urei Bay , Rapa (27 ◦ 36 ′ 51 ′′ S, 144 ◦ 19 ′ 03 ′′ W), 2 m, rubble and sand, 17 August 1991, coll. J.K. Lowry (FRP-52); several specimens, AM P.47078, Point Maomao, Ha’urei Bay , Rapa (27 ◦ 36 ′ 51 ′′ S, 144 ◦ 19 ′ 03 ′′ W), no depth or substrate, 17 August 1991, coll. J.K. Lowry (FRP-85) GoogleMaps .

New Caledonia: Male, 10 mm, dissected, four slides, AM P.84467, Anse Vata, Pointe Bagay (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 0.3 mm, brown alga Padina sp. , 1 November 1996, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-15); female, 13 mm, dissected, one slide, AM P.84468, Anse Vata, Pointe Bagay (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 0.3 m, brown alga Padina sp. , 1 November 1996, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-15); many specimens, AM P.84469, Anse Vata, Pointe Bagay (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 0.3 m, brown alga Padina sp. , 1 November 1996, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-15); few specimens, AM P.84470, Anse Vata, Pointe Bagay (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 0.3 m, rocks covered with fine red algal, one November 1996, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-13).

Remarks

Cymadusa brevidactyla ( Chevreux 1907) was described from the Gambier Archipelago, French Polynesia. Material identified here agrees with the original and subsequent descriptions (see also comments for C. cavimana ).

Habitat

Collected from rubble, sand and on the brown alga Padina sp.

Distribution

Papua New Guinea (current study); Western Samoa ( Myers 1997); Austral Isles, French Polynesia (current study); Micronesia ( Chevreux 1907, 1908; Myers 1995b); Fiji ( Myers 1985); Niue Island ( Myers 1986a); Tonga ( Myers 1986b); Society Islands ( Myers 1989); Cook Islands ( Myers 1990); Indonesia ( Ortiz and Lalana 1999); Mauritius ( Ledoyer 1978); India ( Rabindranath 1972).