WoRMS taxon details
original description
Tomikawa, K.; Kobayashi, N.; Morino, H.; Mawatari, S. F. (2007). New gammaroid family, genera and species from subterranean waters of Japan, and their phylogenetic relationships (Crustacea: Amphipoda). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 149(4): 643-670., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00277.x [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The epithet of the species name is from Latin felix (happy, fortunate). [details]
Habitat Freshwater, shallow riverbed. [details]
Type locality Shallow riverbed of the Koza River (33°32′10″N,
135°47′47″E), Kozagawa Town, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan [details]
Type material Holotype: female, 7.7 mm (appendages on slide and carcass in ethanol), NSMT-Cr 16655 shallow riverbed of the Koza River (33°32′10″N,135°47′47″E), Kozagawa Town, Wakayama Prefecture, 11.iii.2004, collected by N. Matsumoto. Paratypes:
female, 5.9 mm (appendages on slide and carcass in ethanol), NSMT-Cr 16656, five females, 3.7–6.9 mm (ethanol), NSMT-Cr 16657, same data as holotype; two females, 6.4 mm, 5.5 mm (for each, appendages on slide and carcasses in ethanol), NSMT-Cr 16658– 16659, shallow riverbed of the Takatomi River, Kushimoto Town, Wakayama Prefecture, 19.vi.2003, collected by A. Ohtaka; two females, 6.2 mm, 5.5 mm (for each, appendages on slide and carcasses in ethanol), NSMT-Cr 16660–16661, from 60 to 80 cm depth on bank of Kaifu River (33°36′50″N, 134°19′29″E),
Yoshida, Kaifu Town, Tokushima Prefecture, 6.x.2002, collected by Y. Morimoto. [details]
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