Gammarus obruki

Gammarus obruki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Amphipoda
Family:	Gammaridae
Genus:	Gammarus
Species:	G. obruki
Binomial name
	Gammarus obruki; Özbek, 2012

Gammarus obruki[1] is a species of freshwater amphipod, collected from İnderesi Cave, Bartın Province, Turkey. This species belongs to the Gammarus pulex-group. The most discriminant characters of this species are the presence of prolonged extremities, including a very long antennae, up to 52 segmented flagella, a densely setose fifth peduncle, l flagellar segments of antenna, and a fourth peduncle segment that has no long setae.

References

Murat Özbek (2012). "A new freshwater amphipod species, Gammarus obruki sp. nov., from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae)" (PDF). Turkish Journal of Zoology. 36 (5): 567–575. doi:10.3906/zoo-1112-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-06.

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[1] Murat Özbek (2012). "A new freshwater amphipod species, Gammarus obruki sp. nov., from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae)" (PDF). Turkish Journal of Zoology. 36 (5): 567–575. doi:10.3906/zoo-1112-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-06.