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Geometric morphometry supports a taxonomic revision of the Mediterranean Bathyporeia guilliamsoniana (Spence Bate, 1857) (Amphipoda, Bathyporeiidae)

Sabrina Lo BruttoTiziana CuratoloBella S. GalilClaudia Calvaruso

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Mediterranean climateGeometric morphometryAmphipodabiologyBathyporeia geometric morphometry eastern MediterraneanEcologySettore BIO/05 - ZoologiaZoologyAquatic Sciencebiology.organism_classificationCarcinologyEastern mediterraneanMediterranean seaSensuAnimal Science and ZoologyBathyporeia

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Bathyporeia guilliamsoniana (Spence Bate, 1857) specimens collected in the Levantine Basin of the Mediterranean Sea displayed polymorphism in some characters. More than 100 specimens were examined and their intra-specific variation in the shape of the third epimeral plate analysed and quantified. The morphometric geometry methodology is used to assess the ‘cryptic’ variation in shape which may obscure identification. The results support the assignment of sunnivae and megalops to morphotypes of B. guilliamsoniana sensu d’Udekem d’Acoz & Vader (2005).

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2013-01-01
10.1163/15685403-00003217http://hdl.handle.net/10447/100423