A new species of Melita from Japan (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Melitidae)

A new brackish-water species of melitid amphipod, Melita choshigawaensis, from the Choshigawa River, Mie Prefecture, Japan, is named and described. Melita choshigawaensis sp. n. is distinguished from the most similar M. shimizui (Uéno, 1940) by having an elongate and weakly arched male uropod 3, and...

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Main Authors: Ko Tomikawa, Kentaro Hirashima, Atsushi Hirai, Ryu Uchiyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2018-05-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=24778