Korean Journal of Environmental Biology (환경생물)

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First Record of the Genus Lepidepecreum (Amphipoda: Lysianassidae: Tryphoinae) from Korean Waters

  • Received : 2015.05.14
  • Accepted : 2015.06.08
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

Despite the worldwide distributions of genus Lepidepecreum and the previous reports from China and Japan, this genus has not yet been recorded in Korean waters. In this study, Korean materials of lysianassid amphipods are assigned readily to the genus Lepidepecreum and identified as L. vitjazi Gurjanova, 1962 based on the following features: well-developed dorsal keels of the pleonite 3 and urosimite 1; unconcaved palmer margin of ganthopod 1; hooked locking spines of propodus on pereopods 3 and 4; and the shape of coxa 4. We also provide the description and illustrations of this species.

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