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A terrestrial talitrid crustacean is recorded for the first time from subantarctic Macquarie Island. The species, Puhuruhuru patersoni, is native to the southern part of the South Island of New Zealand. Its distribution on Macquarie Is. is restricted to a single locality near the ANARE station on the Isthmus. All mature females collected in December were carrying eggs; females appeared to be less mobile than males. It seems likely that the species has been transported accidentally from New Zealand, perhaps by the same means that introduced the isopod, Styloniscus otakensis, also from southern New Zealand.
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Richardson, A.M.M., Jackson, J.E. The first record of a terrestrial landhopper (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from Macquarie Island. Polar Biol 15, 419–422 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00239718
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