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The southernmost record of the amphipod Hyperia curticephala (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidae) in the Pacific Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2015

Juan Francisco Araya*
Affiliation:
Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras 3425, Ñuñoa CP 780-0024, Santiago, Chile
Marta Esther Araya
Affiliation:
Los Gladiolos 520, Caldera, Chile
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J.F. Araya, Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, ConcepciónChile email: jfaraya@u.uchile.cl
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Abstract

New records of the hyperiid amphipod Hyperia curticephala M. Vinogradov & Semenova, 1985 are presented based on the record of 43 specimens collected from several specimens of the pelagiid jellyfish Chrysaora plocamia (Lesson, 1830) (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa), washed ashore during January 2015 in the port of Caldera (27°S), Atacama Region, northern Chile. This is the second record of H. curticephala after its description, extending the previously known southern distribution record of this species by about 443 km and confirming its association with C. plocamia.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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