Genus Ampelisciphotis Pirlot, 1938

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• Ampelisciphotis Pirlot, J.M. 1938. Les amphipodes de l'expédition du Siboga. Deuxième partie: les amphipodes gammarides, III: Les amphipodes littoraux. 2: Familles des Dexaminidae, Talitridae, Aoridae, Photidae, Ampithoidae, Corophiidae, Jassidae, Cheluridae et Podoceridae. Première Partie (Addendum). Les amphipodes hypérides. Familles des Lanceolidae, Cystisomatidae et Oxycephalidae. La sexualité chez Cystisoma Guérin Méneville. Siboga-Expéditie Report 33(F): 329-388 [341].

  Type species:

   Ampelisciphotis tridens Pirlot, 1938 by original designation.

Introduction

There are only two described species of Ampelisciphotis. One, Ampelisciphotis podophthalma (J.L. Barnard, 1958) from southern California and the other, Ampelisciphotis tridens Pirlot, 1938, is know from Manipa Island, Indonesia and Madagascar; these are not known or reported from Australian waters.

Specimens of Ampelisciphotis are held in the Australian Museum collections. Alan Myers identified A. tridens from Papua New Guinea. Jerry Barnard identified Ampelisciphotis sp. from Cape Banks, NSW. Steve Keable identified Ampelisciphotis sp. from Twofold Bay, NSW. Jim Lowry identified Ampelisciphotis sp. from Bottle and Glass Rocks, Port Jackson and Botany Bay, NSW and with Rachael Peart identified it from Batemans Bay, NSW (J. Lowry, pers. comm.)

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

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