Check List 17(2): 359-363, doi: 10.15560/17.2.359

First record of the terrestrial amphipod, Talitroides alluaudi (Chevreux, 1896) (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Brevitalitridae), from Japan

Tomoyuki Takahashi^‡, Naoto Sawada^‡, Takafumi Nakano^‡

‡ Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Corresponding author: Takafumi Nakano ( nakano@zoo.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp )

Academic editor: Jesser Fidelis de Souza Filho

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Citation: Takahashi T, Sawada N, Nakano T (2021) First record of the terrestrial amphipod, Talitroides alluaudi (Chevreux, 1896) (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Brevitalitridae), from Japan. Check List 17(2): 359-363. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.2.359

Abstract

We report Talitroides alluaudi (Chevreux, 1896) from Miyako Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Although this terrestrial amphipod is distributed worldwide, including Indo-Pacific islands, Europe, and North and South America, the present specimens represent the first record of this species from Japanese islands. The cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) sequence of a Miyako Island specimen was unique compared with the known COI sequences from Taiwanese and Bermudan populations.

Keywords

COI, Miyako Island, Talitroidea, Ryukyu Islands