A New Species of Melita (Amphipoda:Gammaridae) from the Marshall Islands, Micronesia

During the summers of 1968 and 1969, theauthor collected and studied amphipods fromintertidal and subtidal lagoon habitats of threeatolls (Eniwetok, Kwajalein, and Majuro) inthe Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Particular emphasiswas placed on collecting from calcareoussands and gravels, since most workers to datehave reported on the more abundant epifaunalspecies (Schellenberg, 1938; Barnard, 1965). Inaddition, efforts were made to collect completeseries of life history stages, and to study morphologicalvariations, behavior, and general ecologyof the more abundant species