Exampithoe gracilipes Ledoyer, 1984

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 : 824

Exampithoe gracilipes Ledoyer, 1984

( Figures 63–66 )

Exampithoe gracilipes Ledoyer, 1984, pp. 21–23 , fig. 9. Poore and Lowry, 1997, p. 5. Lowry, 2007, p. 282 (checklist).

Type locality

Île aux Canards, New Caledonia.

Material examined

New Caledonia: Male, 11 mm, dissected, four slides, AM P.84586, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18.77 ′ S, 166 ◦ 26.92 ′ E), 0.5 m, brown alga Padina sp. , 4 November 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-19); female, 9 mm, dissected, one slide, AM P.84587, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18.77 ′ S, 166 ◦ 26.92 ′ E), 0.5 m, brown alga Padina sp. , 4 November 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-19); female, AM P.84588, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18.77 ′ S, 166 ◦ 26.92 ′ E), 0.5 m, brown alga Padina sp. , 4 November 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-19); one specimen AM P.84589, Recif Ricaudy (22 ◦ 18 ′ 14 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 09 ′′ E), 1.5 m, coral rubble, 30 October 1995, coll. A.A. Myers (NCL-3); one specimen AM P.84590, between Ile Ngé and Sèche Croissant (22 ◦ 19 ′ 25 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 20 ′ 53 ′′ E), 20 m, brown alga Sargassum sp. , 9 November 1995, coll. I. Takeuchi (NCL-68); five specimens, AM P.84591, entrance of Baie de Citron (22 ◦ 18 ′ 10 ′′ S, 166 ◦ 26 ′ 04 ′′ E), 1.5 m, brown alga Sargassum sp. , 13 November 1995, coll. I. Takeuchi (NCL-79).

Remarks

Material illustrated here shows an aberrant individual with a uni-articulate mandibular palp while all other specimens including the type material have a bi-articulate palp. Material cited here provides additional New Caledonian distribution records for this species.

Distribution

New Caledonia ( Ledoyer 1984; current study).

Figures

Figure 63. Exampithoe gracilipes Ledoyer, 1984, male 9 mm, AM P.84586, female 9 mm, AM P.84587, New Caledonia.

Figure 64. Exampithoe gracilipes Ledoyer, 1984, male 9 mm, AM P.84586, female 9 mm, AM P.84587, New Caledonia. Antennae 1–2 scale bars 0.5 mm, all other scale bars 0.2 mm.

Figure 65. Exampithoe gracilipes Ledoyer, 1984, male 9 mm, AM P.84586, female 9 mm, AM P.84587, New Caledonia. Scalebars 0.5 mm.

Figure 66. Exampithoe gracilipes Ledoyer, 1984, male 9 mm, AM P.84586, New Caledonia. Pereopod scales 0.5 mm, all other scalebars 0.2 mm.