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Several previously unknown marine amphipods were collected and described from the waters around South Korea using a hand net and a light trap.
The body is smooth dorsally and laterally compressed, the eyes of the amphipod are oval and well developed.
Pereopod 7, which is much longer than pereopods 5 and 6, received special attention.
Nothing is yet known about the biology of this species, nor about its role in the food chain.
Aoroides gracilicrus resembles Aoroides longimerus Ren & Zheng, 1996 from Dayawan, China, Aoroides myojinensis Ariyama, 2004 from Myojin-zaki, Japan, and Aoroidessecunda Gurjanova, 1951 from Primorskii Krai, Russia.
Etymology. The species name is derived from the Latin “gracilis” (= slender) and “crus” (= leg) and refers to the relatively slender base of Pereopod 7.
Literature reference:
Kim J, Choi J-H, Kim Y-J, Im H-W, Kim Y-H (2024)
Two new species of the family Aoridae (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Amphipoda) from Korean waters.
ZooKeys 1210: 117-132. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1210.124190
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The body is smooth dorsally and laterally compressed, the eyes of the amphipod are oval and well developed.
Pereopod 7, which is much longer than pereopods 5 and 6, received special attention.
Nothing is yet known about the biology of this species, nor about its role in the food chain.
Aoroides gracilicrus resembles Aoroides longimerus Ren & Zheng, 1996 from Dayawan, China, Aoroides myojinensis Ariyama, 2004 from Myojin-zaki, Japan, and Aoroidessecunda Gurjanova, 1951 from Primorskii Krai, Russia.
Etymology. The species name is derived from the Latin “gracilis” (= slender) and “crus” (= leg) and refers to the relatively slender base of Pereopod 7.
Literature reference:
Kim J, Choi J-H, Kim Y-J, Im H-W, Kim Y-H (2024)
Two new species of the family Aoridae (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Amphipoda) from Korean waters.
ZooKeys 1210: 117-132. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1210.124190
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
