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Lauren E. Hughes | |
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| Born | Lauren Elizabeth Hughes |
| Alma mater | University of New England |
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| Institutions | Australian Museum Natural History Museum, London |
| Thesis | Biodiversity of Amphipods in the Solitary Islands New South Wales, Australia (2007) |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Hughes |
Lauren Elizabeth Hughes is an Australian carcinologist and curator. She specialises in the study of amphipods.
Hughes graduated from the University of New England, Armidale with a PhD in 2007. Her thesis was titled "Biodiversity of Amphipods in the Solitary Islands New South Wales, Australia". [1]
As of 2022 [update] , Hughes is principal curator of invertebrates at the Natural History Museum, London. [2] Prior to this, she worked at the Australian Museum in Sydney.
Hughes and zoologist James K. Lowry have described a number of amphipods in a number of joint papers. [3] [4] [5]
Her zoological author abbreviation is Hughes. [6]
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from 1 to 340 millimetres and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far described. They are mostly marine animals, but are found in almost all aquatic environments. Some 1,900 species live in fresh water, and the order also includes the terrestrial sandhoppers such as Talitrus saltator and Arcitalitrus sylvaticus.
Corophiida is an infraorder of amphipods that contains the two parvorders Caprellidira and Corophiidira.
Platyischnopidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans. Its members are characterised by the conical rostrum, which is covered with sensory pits at the end. Although digging behaviour has only been directly observed in a few taxa, it is assumed that all the animals in the family Platyischnopidae are fossorial. The genera included in Platyischnopidae are Skaptopus, Platyischnopus, Indischnopus, Tiburonella, Eudevenopus, Tittakunara, Tomituka and Yurrokus.
Oedicerotidae is a family of amphipods. It comprises the following genera:
Paracalliopiidae is a family of amphipods, containing the following genera:
Yhi yindi is a species of amphipod crustacean, known only from Orpheus Island, Queensland, Australia. It was described in 1991 by J. Laurens Barnard and J. D. Thomas, and remains the only species in the genus Yhi.
Alicellidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans, which live as scavengers in the deep sea, often in association with hydrothermal vents. The family includes the following genera:
Cochinorchestia is a genus of amphipod belonging to the family Talitridae.
Eurythenes is a genus of marine amphipods in the family Eurytheneidae.
Eurythenes plasticus is a species of amphipod of the genus Eurythenes, first described in 2020. It was named in reference to the PET plastic found in its stomach, after researchers wanted to highlight the impact of plastic pollution.
Iphigenellidae is a freshwater family of amphipods in the superfamily Gammaroidea. It is found in the Ponto-Caspian region, which encompasses the Black, Azov, and Caspian Seas.
Glossocephalus milneedwardsi is a species of amphipod in the family Oxycephalidae. It is epipelagic and lives in association with ctenophores.
Maeridae is a family of marine amphipods, which was first described by Taudl Krapp-Schickel in 2008.
James Kenneth Lowry was a zoologist specialising in amphipods.
Elasmopus arafura is a marine species of amphipod in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 2011 by Lauren E. Hughes and James K. Lowry.
Elasmopus arrawarra is a marine species of amphipod in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 2006 by Lauren E. Hughes and James K. Lowry.
Elasmopus arafura is a marine species of amphipod in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 2011 by Lauren E. Hughes and James K. Lowry, from a specimen collected at "The Blow-holes", Point Quobba on an exposed intertidal rock shelf.
Elasmopus arafura is a marine species of amphipod in the family, Maeridae, and was first described in 2011 by Lauren E. Hughes and James K. Lowry.
Aborolobatea insidiosa is a species of marine crustacean in the Oedicerotidae family, and was first described in 2009 by Lauren E. Hughes and James K. Lowry.
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