Fissarcturus rossi Brandt 2007, SP. NOV. ...

• Main Author: Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Antarcturidae; Fissarcturus; Fissarcturus rossi; New Zealand; Pennell Bank; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10544937; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10544937

FISSARCTURUS ROSSI SP. NOV. (FIGS 21–23) Material examined: Holotype, female (10.5 mm), station, 74°20′S, 179°55′W, 205–220 m, Pennell Bank, Ross Sea, 8 February 1960, New Zealand Oceanographic NIWA 3926. Distribution: Only known from type locality. Etymology: The species name is derived from the name of the type locality, the Ross Sea. The gender is masculine. Diagnosis: Pereonal spination comprising elements in submedial, dorsolateral, lateral and coxal rows, spines of F. rossi are covered with spinules; most posterior lateral spines are positioned 100% at the caudal tip, and the pleotelson apex straight, not extended caudally. Description of the holotype male: Body length 10.5 mm. Eye rounded, 0.3 times lateral length of head. Preocular spine present, small, acute. Supraocular spine long, twice as long as diameter of eye, denticulated. Second cephalic spine slightly longer than supraocular spine, denticulated. Other spines on head, six additional ones on caudal margin. Body long, slender (Fig. 21), except ... : 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 286-290, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00247.x, http://zenodo.org/record/10114580 ...