Schizurakrops Wittmann, 2024, gen. nov. ...

• Main Author: Wittmann, Karl J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Mysida; Mysidae; Schizurakrops; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12206539; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12206539

Schizurakrops gen. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 4AF77738-BAF1-4A19-BFDC-D735B03FBAD5 Type species Schizurakrops meesi gen. et sp. nov. by monotypy and present designation. Diagnosis Based on adult female. Carapace anteriorly produced into large, spearhead-like rostrum. Eye rudiments set apart, not connected by membranous integument; dorsoventrally strongly flattened, with one acute distal projection from disto-lateral edge, no visual elements, no ocular papilla. Three segments of the antennular trunk separated by transverse articulations. Antennal peduncle with three segments lined in a single plane. Antennal scale not subdivided, without terminal lobe; mesial margin setose; bare portion of lateral margin ending in a single, strong tooth. Clypeus with unpaired median, blade-like anterior process. Labrum normal, anteriorly rounded; no longitudinal ridge. Thoracomeres and pleomeres normal. Thoracic endopod 2 not prehensile. Three pairs of oostegites contributing to wall of marsupium. Female pleopods reduced ... : Published as part of Wittmann, Karl J., 2024, The Mysidae (Crustacea, Mysida) of the ANDEEP I-III expeditions to the Antarctic deep sea with the description of twelve new species, establishment of four new genera and with world-wide keys to the species of Erythropinae and Mysidellinae, pp. 1-180 in European Journal of Taxonomy 940 on pages 102-103, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.940.2577, http://zenodo.org/record/12206315 ...