Two new Haploops species (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Ampeliscidae) from the North Atlantic Ocean: H. bjarnii and H. quebecoisis [Contribution to the knowledge of the Haploops genus. 9.]

Denise Bellan-Santini (1) , Richard A. Kaim-Malka (1) , Jean-Claude Dauvin (2)

1 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
2 M2C - Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière

Two new Haploops species are described, both from the North Atlantic Ocean: Haploops bjarnii nov. sp. from around the Faeroe Islands and Iceland, and Haploops quebecoisis nov. sp. from the Saint Lawrence Gulf, off Canada. Haploops bjarnii is a species morphologically close to H. islandica Kaim-Malka, Bellan-Santini & Dauvin, 2016. These are two blind Haploops species, with long antennae. Haploops quebecoisis is morphologically similar to H. sibirica Gurjanova 1929, both species having 2 pairs of corneal lenses in the same position. A table of the 75 morphological characters is presented that can be used permitting to distinguish the new species from similar species.

Keywords: Ampeliscidae; North Atlantic Ocean; Haploops bjarnii; systematic; Haploops quebecoisis

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Ecology, environment; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biodiversity; Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Environmental Sciences; Biodiversity and Ecology

Denise Bellan-Santini, Richard A. Kaim-Malka, Jean-Claude Dauvin. Two new Haploops species (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Ampeliscidae) from the North Atlantic Ocean: H. bjarnii and H. quebecoisis [Contribution to the knowledge of the Haploops genus. 9.]. Zootaxa, 2018, 4483 (3), pp.480-496. ⟨10.11646/zootaxa.4483.3.4⟩. ⟨hal-01882566⟩