Family LEPIDEPECREELLIDAE Stoddart & Lowry, 2010

Lepidepecreella nellae

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Introduction

The Lepidepecreellidae is a small, wide spread group of 11 species, nearly all are known from the Indo West-Pacific and the Antarctic. Most species are deep sea amphipods, often living below 2000 m depth. The shallowest known species is L. bidens (K.H. Barnard, 1930) from about 180 m depth. Berge et al. (2004) showed that the Antarctic species, L. andeep Berge, Vader & Lockhart, 2004, lives in association with echinoids and causes considerable damage around the peristome where the amphipods attach. There is currently one species known from Australia and three species from the Australian Antarctic Territories.

General References

Berge, J, Vader, W. & Lockhart, S. 2004. A survey of amphipod associates of sea urchins, with description of new species in the genera Lepidepecreella (Lysianassoidea: lepidepecreellid group) and Notopoma (Photoidea: Ischyroceridae) from Antarctic cidarids. Deep-Sea Research II (51): 1717-1731

Stoddart, H.E. & Lowry, J.K. 2010. Lepidepecreellidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters. Zootaxa 2634: 63–68

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