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Gammarus obruki

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Gammarus obruki
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Family: Gammaridae
Genus: Gammarus
Species:
G. obruki
Binomial name
Gammarus obruki
Özbek, 2012

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

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  1. ^ Murat Özbek (2012). "A new freshwater amphipod species, Gammarus obruki sp. nov., from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae)" (PDF). Turkish Journal of Zoology. 36 (5): 567–575. doi:10.3906/zoo-1112-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-06.