Two new Mediterranean Stenothoe (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the coast of Israel

Within collections along the Mediterranean coast of Israel, two new species of Stenothoe (Amphipoda) were found. They were found to be living on sand or mud and probably licking the surface of grains

Foreword to the special issue "new frontiers for monitoring European biodiversity: The role and importance of amphipod crustaceans"

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Cryptic species in a well-known habitat: applying taxonomics to the amphipod genus Epimeria (Crustacea, Peracarida)

Taxonomy plays a central role in biological sciences. It provides a communication system for scientists as it aims to enable correct identification of the studied organisms. As a consequence, species descriptions should seek to include as much available information as possible at species level to follow an integrative concept of ‘taxonomics’. Here, we describe the cryptic species Epimeria frankei sp. nov. from the North Sea, and also redescribe its sister species, Epimeria cornigera. The morphological information obtained is substantiated by DNA barcodes and complete nuclear 18S rRNA gene sequences. In addition, we provide, for the first time, full mitochondrial genome data as part of a metazoan species description for a holotype, as well as the neotype. This study represents the first successful implementation of the recently proposed concept of taxonomics, using data from highthroughput technologies for integrative taxonomic studies, allowing the highest level of confidence for both biodiversity and ecological research

<strong>New or amended data on Mediterranean Amphipoda: genera <em>Dexamine</em>, <em>Ericthonius</em> and <em>Stenothoe</em></strong>

Krapp-Schickel, T. (2013): New or amended data on Mediterranean Amphipoda: genera Dexamine, Ericthonius and Stenothoe. Zootaxa 3613 (2): 125-145, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.

Thaumatelsonine stenothoids (Crustacea: Amphipoda): Part 1

Volume: 58Start Page: 89End Page: 12

Cladistic analysis of the family Stenothoidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea)

The amphipod family Stenothoidae contains more than 200 species in about 40 genera; these genera are at present often defined not by the presence, but by the absence of synapomorphies, thus defining grades rather than clades. Our phylogenetic analyses yielded 4 groups of stenothoids: a basic proboloidid clade; an advanced and always clearly separated Austral-Antarctic thaumatelsonid clade, with a possibly related Arctic mesometopid clade; and finally a poorly resolved group, the stenothoids sensu stricto, including the large and probably polyphyletic genera Stenothoe and Metopa, each with more than 50 species. It is proposed to study and analyse these groups separately in future, based on better redescriptions of the individual species. Our analyses support the family status of the Thaumatelsonidae, erected as a family by Gurjanova in 1938, but reduced to subfamily rank by Barnard in 1972