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Jan H. Stock, Boris Sket and Thomas M. Iliffe. 1987. Two new amphipod crustaceans from anchihaline caves in Bermuda. Crustaceana, 53:54-66.


The two Amphipoda described in this paper are both rare in the anchialine caves of the Walsingham area in Bermuda (see Sket & Iliffe, 1980).  The presence of an ingolfiellid in Bermudian cave waters is interesting enough to justify the description of the species involved, even though it is based on a ingle female only.  The ingolfiellids are an old group with a curious distribution pattern (Stock, 1977): (1) some species are bathyal or abyssal; (2) many species occur in inland groundwaters or cold continental masses (Europe, Africa, South America); (3) many species occur in coastal groundwaters and interstitial waters.  The absence of males makes a cladistic comparison of the Bermudian taxon impossible.  However, the female morphology seems to point to close relationship with the above category 3, the coastal/interstitial group.


 

Thomas M. Iliffe, Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, P.O. Box 1675, Galveston, Texas 77553, USA.
E-mail: iliffet@tamug.edu


Keywords: Amphipoda; anchialine; caves; crustaceans;  ingolfiellid; Bermuda; Walsingham; interstitial.




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