Gammarus obruki
Gammarus obruki | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Superorder: | Peracarida |
Order: | Amphipoda |
Family: | Gammaridae |
Genus: | Gammarus |
Species: | G. obruki
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Binomial name | |
Gammarus obruki Özbek, 2012
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Gammarus obruki[1] is a species of freshwater amphipod, collected from İnderesi Cave, Bartın Province, Turkey. This species belongs to the Gammarus pulex-group. The most discriminant characters of this species are the presence of prolonged extremities, including a very long antennae, up to 52 segmented flagella, a densely setose fifth peduncle, l flagellar segments of antenna, and a fourth peduncle segment that has no long setae.
References[]
- ^ Murat Özbek (2012). "A new freshwater amphipod species, Gammarus obruki sp. nov., from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae)" (PDF). . 36 (5): 567–575. doi:10.3906/zoo-1112-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-06.
Categories:
- Gammarus
- Endemic fauna of Turkey
- Freshwater crustaceans of Asia
- Crustaceans described in 2012
- Amphipod stubs