Styloptocuma australiense Petrescu 2006, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Petrescu, Iorgu
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Cumacea; Nannastacidae; Styloptocuma; Styloptocuma australiense; Seta; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10665817; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10665817

Styloptocuma australiense sp. nov. Figures 53, 54 Material examined. Holotype female, NSW, off Nowra, 34°51.90'S, 151°12.60'E, 770 m, crinoid dominated, WHOI epibenthic sled, G.C.B. Poore and C.C. Lu, RV Franklin, 15 Jul 1986 (stn SLOPE 6), NMV J53062. Paratype: 1 female (stn SLOPE 6), NMV J53063. Diagnosis. Carapace short, with long pseudorostrum, lower margin smooth. Integument with few setae on carapace, smooth on rest of body. Pereopod 1 with carpus as long as propodus. Dactylus of pereopod 2 twice as long as propodus. Uropod peduncle 2.8 times as long as pleonite 6, with serrated inner margin 1.3 times as long as endopod, exopod shorter than endopod, endopod with 4 setae on inner margin and robust curved terminal seta. Description. Body elongate, integument carapace covered with sparse setae. Length: 3.2 mm. Carapace shorter than one-third body length, 1.7 times as long as high, long pseudorostrum (0.4 of entire carapace length), antennal notch absent, lower margin smooth, ocular lobe eyeless, reaching ... : Published as part of Petrescu, Iorgu, 2006, Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from eastern Bass Strait, the south-eastern Australian slope, and Antarctica in the collections of Museum Victoria, pp. 129-173 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (2) on pages 163-164, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.14, http://zenodo.org/record/10665606 ...