27 Nov A new species of Pontocrates Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) from Cyprus
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Garcia Gómez SC, Myers AA, Avramidi E, Grammatiki K, Lymperaki M, Resaikos V, Papatheodoulou M, Louca V, Xevgenos D, Küpper FC.
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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