Galapagos Species Database

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Antronicippe serrata Stock & Iliffe, 1990

amphipodo, Amphipods

Eyeless fauna, body length 4.5 mm

Found in ground water, subterranean anchialine salt and brackish waters

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Malacostraca

Order
Amphipoda

Suborder
Gammaridea

Family
Pardaliscidae

Genus
Antronicippe

Species
serrata

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Distribution: Ecuador (Galapagos Islands in Santa Cruz)

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Iliffe, T.M. (1991) Anchialine Fauna of the Galapagos Islands In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 209-231.
  • Peck, S.B. (1994) Diversity and zoogeography of the non-oceanic Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (excluding terrestrial Isopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 54-69.
  • Peck, S.B. (1990) Eyeless arthropods of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador: Composition and origin of the cryptozoic fauna of a young, tropical, oceanic archipelago. Biotropica 22(4): 366-381.
  • Stock, J.H. Iliffe, T.M. (1989) Amphipod crustaceans from anchihaline cave waters of the Galapagos Islands. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 98(2): 141-160.

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