A new species of Valettiopsis Holmes, 1908 (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Lysianassoidea) from abyssal waters off California

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1501, 2007, Pages 45-56

  Hendrycks, Ed A ^a  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abyssal; Amphipoda; Baited traps; California; Deep sea; Lysianassoidea; New species; North pacific; Taxonomy; Valettiopsis concava

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA; GAMMARIDEA; LYSIANASSOIDEA; VALETTIOPSIS; VALETTIOPSIS RUFFOI;

EID: 34250850831     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1501.1.3     Document Type: Article

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