Leptochelia gadgeti Edgar, 2012, n. sp. ...

• Main Author: Edgar, Graham J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Leptocheliidae; Leptochelia; Leptochelia gadgeti; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3503033; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3503033

Leptochelia gadgeti n. sp. (Figs 8–9) Material examined. Holotype. Male (NMV J62314), 3.1 mm, Cliff Head, WA (29.52°S 114.99°E), 1 m depth, seagrass (Amphibolis antarctica) washings, 5 January1986. Paratypes. Two males (NMV J62315), holotype location, June 1985 – June 1987. Other material. Ten males (NMV J62316), Seven Mile Beach, WA (29.17°S 114.89°E), 1 m depth, seagrass (Amphibolis antarctica and A. griffithii) washings, June 1985 – June 1987. Two males (NMV J62317) Little Armstrong Bay, Rottnest Island, WA (31.99°S 115.50°E), seagrass washings, 1 m depth, 21 Jan 1996. Description. MALE. Body (Fig. 8). Observed length 1.9–3.2 mm; body slender, about ten times longer than broad; cephalothorax frontal margin produced into rostrum, lateral margin with concavities where basis and merus of cheliped adjoin, length about 1.5 times width and approximately one-fifth body length; eyes relatively small, pear-shaped, about one-sixth length of cephalothorax. Pereon just over two-thirds total length; pereonite-1 length ... : Published as part of Edgar, Graham J., 2012, New Leptocheliidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha) from Australian seagrass and macro-algal habitats, and a redescription of the poorly-known Leptochelia ignota from Sydney Harbour, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3276 on pages 15-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.212118 ...