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Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from chemically reduced habitats; the hydrothermal vent system of the north-east Pacific. Part II. Melitidae and Eusiridae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2007

Kim Larsen  and
Traudl Krapp-Schickel
Kim Larsen
Affiliation:
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural and Human History, 2-4-1, Higashida, Yahatahigashi-Ku, Kitakyushu, Japan
Traudl Krapp-Schickel
Affiliation:
Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
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Abstract

The amphipod fauna from habitats in hydrothermal vents on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Escabana Trough, and Gorda Ridge and from experimental wood deployments is examined. The material revealed one new species of Melitidae, Bathyceradocus wuzzae, and one of Eusiridae, Leptamphopus fragilis.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 87 , Issue 5 , October 2007 , pp. 1207 - 1217
Copyright
2007 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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