AI Article Synopsis
- A new species of the amphipod genus Pontocrates has been identified from Cyprus in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea.
- This newly discovered species is closely related to Pontocrates moorei, which has only been found in the British Isles.
- With this finding, there are now three known species of Pontocrates in the Mediterranean Sea.
Article Abstract
A new species of the amphipod genus Pontocrates (Boeck 1871), family Oedicerotidae, is described from Cyprus in the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is a sister taxon to Pontocrates moorei (Myers & Ashelby 2022), currently recorded solely from the British Isles. It is the third species of Pontocrates now known to occur in the Mediterranean Sea.
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