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A new species Sicafodia iceage is described from the North Atlantic. It differs in mouthpart details and the width of the pereopod coxa 5 from the only other described species of the family Sicafodiidae, which had been found in the Pacific Ocean near Tasmania.
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We want to express our sincere thanks to Dr. Saskia Brix [German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Hamburg] for collecting the material and making it available for our study by organising a great identification workshop in Wilhelmshaven in July 2016. Thanks also to Karen Jeskulke, Antje Fischer, Sven Hoffmann and Nicole Gatzmeier (DZMB, Hamburg) for sorting the IceAGE material. We thank Dr. Thomas von Rintelen [Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin] for helping us to upload the COI sequences to GenBank.
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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Biodiversity of Icelandic Waters by Karin Meißner, Saskia Brix, Ken M. Halanych and Anna Jazdzewska.
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Campean, A.J., Coleman, C.O. A new species of Sicafodia Just, 2004 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Sicafodiidae) from the North Atlantic. Mar Biodiv 48, 939–948 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0635-1
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