Species Lelehua myersi Serejo & Sittrop, 2009

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lelehua myersi Serejo, C.S & Sittrop, D.J. 2009. Hyalidae. pp. 440-452 in Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (eds). Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 2260: 1-930 [444, figs. 3, 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P80164 ♂ 3.5 mm, on the red alga Galaxaura subfruiticulosa Chou, from reef flat, Picnic Beach, Palfrey Island, Lizard Island, QLD, 1 m [14°41.69’S, 145°26.89’E].
  Paratype(s) AM P80165 ♂ 3.5 mm; AM P80166 ♀ 3.1 mm; AM P80167 ♀ 3.3 mm; AM P71064 57 ♂, 3.2–3.7 mm and 29 ♀, 2.2–3.3 mm; MNRJ 2 ♂ and 2 ♀; AM P70572 2 ♀, 2.4 and 2.5 mm; AM P71031 1 ♂, 3.1 mm and 1 ♀, 2.7 mm; AM P71090 ♂ 3.9 mm; AM P71097 20 ♂, 2.5–4.1 mm and 31 ♀, 2.3–3.7 mm; AM P71185 ♂ 3.6 mm. (Paratypes from same locality as holotype).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral (0 to 30 m) 1 to 3 m depth, on the red alga Galaxaura subfruiticulosa Chou, from reef flat.

History of changes