Desmocornea subchelata Wittmann, 2024, gen. et sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Wittmann, Karl J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Mysida; Mysidae; Desmocornea; Desmocornea subchelata; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12774295; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12774295

Desmocornea subchelata gen. et sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3B26DF92-6C03-4CC6-A5FE-0097382D8D57 Figs 25–30 Diagnosis Based on adult female. All features as in generic diagnosis. Eyes bilobate, differentiated in a bulbous, dorsoventrally flattened mesial lobe and a smaller, roughly calotte-shaped lateral lobe. Eyestalk fused only with mesial lobe. Reduced ommatidia of mesial lobe face centripetally; modified, in some way functional ommatidia of lateral lobe face laterally, tightly set in parallel orientation, together forming self-contained ribbon. One large tooth close to acute disto-lateral edge of antennal sympod. Antennal scale extends 0.6 times its length beyond antennular trunk and 0.3–0.4 times beyond antennal peduncle. Total scale length three times maximum width; its disto-lateral tooth mesially closely accompanied by two short spines. Thoracic exopod 1 with 9-segmented flagellum, exopods 2, 5–6 and 8 with 10-segmented flagellum (exopods 3–4 and 7 broken). Carpopropodus 2 weakly elongate, ... : 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 49-59, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.940.2577, http://zenodo.org/record/12206315 ...