Australian Museum Journal Amphipoda from the South Pacific: Western Samoa
- Shortform:
- Myers, 1997, Rec. Aust. Mus. 49(1): 99–109
- Author(s):
- Myers, Alan A.
- Year published:
- 1997
- Title:
- Amphipoda from the South Pacific: Western Samoa
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 49
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 99
- End page:
- 109
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.49.1997.1260
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 04 July 1997
- Cover date:
- 04 July 1997
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- CRUSTACEA: AMPHIPODA
- Digitized:
- 14 April 2008
- Available online:
- 09 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 1260
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (27kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (519kb PDF)
Abstract
Forty species in twelve families of gammaridean Amphipoda are recorded from Upolu Island, Western Samoa. Three species are new to science, Rostrogitanopsis cuculla n.sp., Maeracoota tridentata n.sp. and Ischyrocerus apiensis n.sp. and are described and figured. Twenty-seven of the thirty-five species known from outside Samoa, are widespread. Eight species have limited extrinsic distributions, two being shared with Papua New Guinea, two with Fiji and Tonga, two with Kosrae (Micronesia) one with the Gambier archipelago and one with Moorea, Tonga and Fiji.