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The integumental organs of amphipods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. Mauchline
Affiliation:
The Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, P.O. Box No. 3, Oban, Argyll
A. R. S. Ballantyne
Affiliation:
The Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, P.O. Box No. 3, Oban, Argyll

Extract

Some integumental organs of Amphipoda have been briefly described by Bate & Westwood (1863). Their diagrams are extremely small and, in some cases, inaccurate. Fleminger (1973) described the integumental organs of calanoid copepods of the genus Eucalanus. He shows that these are distributed over the body in a pattern peculiar to each species. Bate & Westwood do not mention patterns in the distribution of integu-mental organs in amphipods. They do, however, describe two peculiar structures in gammaridean species of the families Talitridae and Gammaridae; they do not mention these as occurring in any other families.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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References

Bate, C. S. & Westwood, J. O., 1863. A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea. 1, 507 pp. London: John Van Voorst.Google Scholar
Fleminger, A., 1973. Pattern, number, variability, and taxonomic significance of integumental organs (sensilla and glandular pores) in the genus Eucalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida). Fishery Bulletin of the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, 71, 9651010.Google Scholar