Leptochelia evansi 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 evansi; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3506305; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3506305

Leptochelia evansi n. sp. (Figs 6–7) Material examined. Holotype. Male (NMV J62324), 3.2 mm, Seven Mile Beach, WA (29.17°S 114.89°E), 1 m depth, seagrass (Amphibolis antarctica and A. griffithii) washings, 3 March 1985. Paratypes. 16 males (NMV J62325), holotype location, June 1985 – June 1987. Other material. 32 males (NMV J62326), Cliff Head, WA (29.52°S 114.99°E), 1 m depth, seagrass (Amphibolis antarctica) washings, June 1985 – June 1987; six males (NMV J62327), Little Armstrong Bay, Rottnest Island, WA (31.99°S 115.50°E), seagrass washings, 1 m depth, 21 Jan 1996. Description. MALE. Body (Fig. 6). Observed length 1.8–4.0 mm; body slender, about ten times longer than broad; cephalothorax frontal margin straight from eye to slight rostrum, lateral margin straight-sided for about one third distance from eye, then expanded in smooth convex curve to anterio-lateral corner of pereonite-1, length about 1.2 times width and approximately one-sixth body length; eyes pear-shaped, about one-fifth length of ... : 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 12-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.212118 ...