Phoxocephalidae

Abstract

Nine species from three genera of Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) are reported from the Great Barrier Reef Queensland Australia. Seven species are new to science including five species of Birubius Barnard & Drummond 1976: Birubius banksi sp. nov. Birubius casuarina sp. nov. Birubius kingae sp. nov. Birubius oti sp. nov. and Birubius parvus sp. nov.; one species of Limnoporeia Fearn-Wannan 1968: Limnoporeia cooki sp. nov. and one species of Metaphoxus Bonnier 1896: Metaphoxus varanus sp. nov. Limnoporeia woorake Barnard &Drummond 1978 is reported for the first time from the Great Barrier Reef and more records of Birubius batei (Haswell 1879) are reported prompting the designation of a neotype for the species. These records expand the number of phoxocephalid species previously recorded from the Great Barrier Reef. Copyright © 2009 Magnolia Press.