Two Newly Recorded Species of the Genus Aoroides (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Aoridae) from Korea

Abstract

Two aorid amphipods, Aoroides ellipticus Ariyama, 2004 and A. semicurvatus Ariyama, 2004 from shallow waters of South Korea are reported here. Aoroides ellipticus has the characteristic setation of gnathopod 1 and the elliptical shape of basis on pereopod 7, while A. semicurvatus can be easily distinguished from congeners by combined characters of the curved propodus on gnathopod 2 and the absence of marginal spines on outer ramus of uropod 3 in mature males. This paper redescribed these two aorids and provided a key to Korean Aoroides species.

Keywords

• Aoroides ellipticus
• Aoroides semicurvatus
• taxonomy
• amphipods
• Korea