New species of anthurid and arcturid isopod (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda) from Hong Kong

Abstract

Three new species of anthurid isopod are described, one each of the genera Caenanthura and Amakusanthura from within or adjacent to Conic Island Cave, eastern Hong Kong, and a new species of Cyathura from the Mai Po Marshes in northwestern Hong Kong. The anthurid isopods of Hong Kong waters are reviewed. In addition, a new arcturid isopod species of the genus Arcturina is described, also from the vicinity of Conic Island Cave.

Keywords:

• Isopoda
• Anthuridae
• Arcturidae
• Arctarina
• Cyathura
• Amakusanthura
• Caenanthura
• South China Sea
• Hong Kong
• marine caves

Acknowledgements

I am inevitably most grateful to the diving team for the collection of this material, and to those participants of the 2002 cave expedition who sorted the samples and obtained the environmental data (see elsewhere in these proceedings).