Ascidicola antarctica Kim & Boxshall 2021, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Kim, Il-Hoi, Boxshall, Geoff A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Cyclopoida; Ascidicolidae; Ascidicola; Ascidicola antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Antarctica; Copepods
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10530905; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10530905

Ascidicola antarctica sp. nov. (Figs. 6, 7) Type material. Holotype ♀ (MNHN-IU-2018-1942, dissected and mounted on a slide) from Cçrella antarctẚca Sluiter, 1905; Antarctic Ocean, Eltanin cruise 12, Stn 1078 (61°26´S, 41°55.4´W), depth 604 m, 12 April 1964. Etymology. The name of the new species refers to its distribution in the Antarctic Ocean. Description of female. Body (Fig. 6A, B) elongate, cylindrical, segmented as in congeners. Body length 2.56 mm. Prosome slightly depressed; maximum width 560 μm across fourth pedigerous somite. Prosome 1.08 mm long, occupying 41% of body length, gradually broadening distally; cephalosome 351×425 μm; first to fourth pedigerous somites 68×431, 154×480, 203×505, and 283×560 μm, respectively. Urosome 5-segmented; fifth pedigerous somite about 220×440 μm, genital somite (Fig. 6C) 1.40 times longer than wide (578×412 μm); small copulatory pore visible on proximal ventral surface. Three abdominal somites 265×302, 154×252, and 185×197 μm, respectively; ventral spinose pad ... : Published as part of Kim, Il-Hoi & Boxshall, Geoff A., 2021, Copepods (Cyclopoida) associated with ascidian hosts: Ascidicolidae, Buproridae, Botryllophilidae, and Enteropsidae, with descriptions of 84 new species, pp. 1-286 in Zootaxa 1 on pages 15-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4978.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4820443 ...