A new Ingolfiellid (Crustacea,Amphipoda, Ingolfiellidae) from an anchialine pool on Abd?al?Kuri?Island,Socotra Archipelago,Yemen |
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| Authors: | Valentina Iannilli Ronald Vonk |
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| Institution: | 1.ENEA, Technical Unit of Sustainable Management of Agro-Ecosystems, C.R. Casaccia via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy ; 2.Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 9, I-37129 – Verona, Italy ; 3.Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands ; 4.Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Ingolfiella arganoi
sp. n. from Abd al Kuri Island in the Arabian Sea is described from two specimens, a male and a female. The western shore of the Indian Ocean was hitherto a vacant spot in the distribution of circumtropical shallow marine interstitial ingolfiellids and therefore the location of the new species fills a meaningful gap in the geography of the family. Morphologically, the new species shows close affinities with Ingolfiella xarifae from the Maldives. |
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| Keywords: | Taxonomy meiofauna subterranean thalassoid amphipods beach environment mesopsammon Arabian Sea |
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