Three new species of the genus Gammarus are described from Lijiang, Yunnan Province, South China. Gammarus elevatus sp. nov. is characterized by mid-dorsal keel on pleonites 1-3 and compressed elevation on urosomites 1-2; G. denticulatus sp. nov. by many small spinules and setae on pleonites 1-3; G. stagnarius sp. nov. by lack of calceoli on antenna 2 and shorter inner ramus of uropod 3. These amphipods are compared with other known Gammarus species from China.
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1 August 2002
Three New Species of the Genus Gammarus (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae) from Yunnan, China
Zhong-e Hou,
Shuqiang Li,
Hiroshi Morino
Amphipoda
China
Gammarus
taxonomy
Yunnan