Fissarcturus sandwichi Brandt 2007, SP. NOV. ...

• Published in: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
• Main Author: Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Antarcturidae; Fissarcturus; Fissarcturus sandwichi; Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10544935; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10544935

FISSARCTURUS SANDWICHI SP. NOV. (FIGS 11–20) Material examined: Holotype, male (8.2 mm), Station ANDEEP 143-3, 65°18.55′S, 51°31.95′W, 2893− 2894 m, South Sandwich Islands, 6 March 2002, RV Polarstern (ZMH K-40894). Paratypes: Female (9 mm – illustrated), station ANDEEP 143-3, same locality as holotype, RV Polarstern (ZMH K-40895); further paratype material from the same station: male (juveniles 7, 7.5, adult 10 mm), female (2 ovig: 8 mm), Manca (2.8, 3, 3, 3.8, 4, 4.8, 5, 5.2, 5.2 mm), juveniles (6.3, 6.5, 7 mm). Distribution: Southern Ocean, South Sandwich Islands. Etymology: The species name is derived from the name of the type locality, the South Sandwich Islands. The gender is masculine. Diagnosis: Strong frontally bent supraocular spines (females with second cephalic spines) and dorsum covered with flat, cauliflower-like elevations in submedial, lateral and coxal rows. Description of the holotype male: Body (Fig. 11) length 8.2 mm. Eye rounded. Eye 0.2 of lateral length of head. Preocular spine absent. ... : Published as part of Brandt, Angelika, 2007, Three new species of Fissarcturus (Isopoda, Antarcturidae) from the Southern Ocean, pp. 263-290 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149 (2) on pages 269-281, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00247.x, http://zenodo.org/record/10114580 ...