Inventory and new records of benthic amphipods from macrophytes and fine sand communities of the Bizerte lagoon (Tunisia, SW Mediterranean Sea)

Khammassi, Marwa; Jourde, Jérôme; Zaabar, Wahiba; Laabidi, Sarra; Sauriau, Pierre-Guy; Achouri, Mohamed Sghaier

doi:10.1186/s41200-019-0182-5

Table 1 Amphipod species recorded in the Bizerte lagoon during the present study

From: Inventory and new records of benthic amphipods from macrophytes and fine sand communities of the Bizerte lagoon (Tunisia, SW Mediterranean Sea)

Family	Species	Ra%	Habitat preference	BG
Ampithoidae	Cymadusa filosa Savigny, 1816	11.7%	Hard and sandy bottoms, among algae and Cymodocea nodosa meadows	B
Aoridae	Microdeutopus gryllotalpa Costa, 1853	10%	Hard and sandy bottoms, among algae and C. nodosa meadows	A
Caprellidae	Caprella equilibra Say, 1818	5.9%	Among algae	C
Caprellidae	Caprella scaura^a Templeton, 1836	8.6%	Among algae	B
Corophiidae	Ericthonius difformis H. Milne Edwards, 1830	1.6%	Sandy bottom and among algae	A
Corophiidae	Monocorophium insidiosum^a (Crawford, 1937)	8.6%	Hard and sandy bottoms, Among algae and C. nodosa meadows	C
Dexaminidae	Dexamine spinosa (Montagu, 1813)	11.1%	Hard bottom and among algae	A
Gammaridae	Gammarus insensibilis Stock, 1966	2.6%	Among algae and C. nodosa meadows	A
Hyalidae	Serejohyale spinidactylus^c (Chevreux, 1926)	2.2%	Among algae and C. nodosa meadows	A
Ischyroceridae	Jassa marmorata^b Holmes, 1905	4.4%	Hard and sandy bottoms, among algae and C. nodosa meadows	C
Leucothoidae	Leucothoe incisa^a Robertson, 1892	1.3%	Hard bottom and among algae	A
Lysianassidae	Lysianassa costae^a (H. Milne-Edwards, 1830)	1.4%	Among algae and C. nodosa meadows	A
Maeridae	Elasmopus rapax (A. Costa in Hope, 1851)	11%	Hard and sandy bottoms, among algae and C. nodosa meadows	C
	Elasmopus pectenicrus^a (Spence Bate, 1862)	9.5%	Among algae and C. nodosa meadows	B
	Quadrimaera inaequipes^a (A. Costae in Hope, 1851)	2.3%	Among algae	A
Melitidae	Melita palmata^a (Montagu, 1804)	2.4%	Among algae	A
Nuuanuidae	Gammarella fucicola (Leach, 1814)	2.9%	Among algae and C. nodosa meadows	A
Talitridae	Orchestia mediterranea Costa, 1853	2.5%	Hard bottom	A

^anew records in Bizerte lagoon, ^bnew records in Tunisia and ^cnew records in the Mediterranean Sea, (%Ra) Relative abundance, (BG) Biogeography, A: species common to Mediterranean and Atlantic waters, B: Lessepsian species, C: Cosmopolitan species and D: Endemic species

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