Species Alteuthellopsis corallina Humes, 1981

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• Altheuthellopsis corallina Humes, A.G. 1981. Harpacticoid copepods associated with Cnidaria in the Indo-west Pacific. Journal of Crustacean Biology 1: 227-240 [227].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 81334 ♀ (samples were found on the hard coral Merulina ampliata in north-western Madagascar; lat. long. not stated by Humes), Madagascar.
  Paratype(s) USNM 181335 ?, Madagascar; USNM 181336 184♀ 107♂ (samples were found on the hard coral Merulina ampliata in Nosy Be, north-western Madagascar; lat. long. not stated by Humes), Madagascar; whereabouts unknown 128♀ 92♂ (from Platygyra daedala, from 1 colony, in 1 m, Ambariobe, near Nosy Be, 24/01/64; lat. long. not stated by Humes), north-west Madagascar; whereabouts unknown 287♀ 197♂ (from Platygyra sp., from 1 colony, in 2 m, Ambariobe, Nosy Be on 25/06/67; lat. long. not stated by Humes), Madagascar; whereabouts unknown 157♀ 121♂ 221 copepodids (from Astreopora sp. from 1 colony, in 2 m, west of Pt. Mahatsinjo, Nosy Be on 27/03/64; lat. long. not stated by Humes), Madagascar; whereabouts unknown 448♀ 410♂ 267 copepodids (from Pocillopora damicornis var. caespitosa Dana from 1 colony, in 1.5 m, Rocher a la Voile, Noumea, on 19/06/71; lat. long. not stated by Humes), New Caledonia; whereabouts unknown 63♀ 66♂ 37 copepodids (from Acropora exigua (Dana) from 1 colony, in 2 m, eastern end of Isle Ndie, Baie Dumbea on 6/07/71), Noumea; whereabouts unknown 14♀ 10♂ 27 copepodids (from Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck), from 1 colony, in 2 m, Poelau Parang, eastern Ceram, on 23/05/75; lat. long. not stated by Humes), Ceram.

Distribution

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• New Caledonia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Species found in washings of different scleractinian corals.

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