Colomastix azumai Hirayama & Kikuchi 1980

アズマツツヨコエビ

節足動物門 甲殻亜門 軟甲綱 フクロエビ上目 端脚目 Colomastigidea ツツヨコエビ科

female BL 3mm
shallow water, algal bed; Sagami Bay, Japan
collected by Kazuyuki Yamada, 13 July 2005

　 Tetilla serica^*1（Hirayama Kikuchi 1980）， Spirastrella insignis^*2 および Anthosigmella raromicrosclera^*3（Ariyama 2005）と共生する．

*1 トウナスカイメン Craniella serica (Lebwohl 1914)
*2 オオパンカイメン Spirastrella insignis Thiele 1898
*3 トゲシグマカイメン Cliona raromicrosclera (Dickinson 1945)

first up date30 June 2008
modified 01 May 2009, 01 August 2012

1. Ariyama, Hiroyuki 2005 Six species of the genus Colomastix (Crustacea. Amphipoda: Colomastigidae) from western Japan, with descriptions of two new species. Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History, 59: 1-40.
2. Hirayama, Akira & Taiji, Kikuchi 1980 A new gammaridean amphipoda, Colomastix azumai, sp. nov., living in the sponge, Tetilla serica. Publications of the Amakusa Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyushu University, 5(2): 133-141.