Abstract
During the course of faunistic investigations of estuarine Amphipoda in North Carolina (Fox and Bynum, 1975), several undescribed species have been found. Six of these, in the generaGammarus, Maera, Stenothoe, Lembos andMicrodeutopus, are described here.
Atylus sp. cf.minikoi is figured to facilitate future work on this group. Figures of the male ofStenothoe minuta Holmes, 1905 are given because none have been published previously. Local specimens ofProtohaustorius Bousfield, 1965, which are in certain respects intermediate betweenP. wigleyi Bousfield, 1965 andP. deichmannae Bousfield, 1965, are figured partially and their points of difference discussed.Corophium aquafuscum Heard and Sikora, 1972 is reported for the first time from North Carolina.
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Bynum, K.H., Fox, R.S. New and noteworthy amphipod crustaceans from North Carolina, U.S.A.. Chesapeake Science 18, 1–33 (1977). https://doi.org/10.2307/1350362
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