Note on the Arcturidae from the Weddetl Sea and description of Antarcturus hempeli sp.n. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Valvifera)

• Published in: Zoologica Scripta
• Main Author: WÄGELE, JOHANN‐WOLFGANG
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1988
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Bouvier; Hodgson; Miers; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1988.tb00095.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1463-6409.1988.tb00095.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1988.tb00095.x

New localities of several arcturids are reported from the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic Ocean. Antarcturus hempeli sp.n. is described and drawings from type material of the following species are presented: Antarcturus furcatus (Studer, 1882), A. polaris (Hodgson, 1902), A. glacialis (Beddard, 1886). A granulosus Nordenstam, 1933, A. antarcticus Bouvier, 1910, A. lillei Tattersall, 1920, A. coppingeri (Miers, 1881), A. hodgsoni Richardson, 1913. Of the 37 species known from the studied area only 6 occur in the high Antarctic Weddell Sea. It is suspected that the semi‐sessile way of life yielded the evolution of many local species and races.