Platytyphlops taylorae Gerken 2018, n. sp. ...

• Main Author: Gerken, Sarah
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Cumacea; Lampropidae; Platytyphlops; Platytyphlops taylorae; East Antarctica; Seta; Antarc*; Antarctica; Enderby Land
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3799184; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3799184

Platytyphlops taylorae n. sp. (Figs 65–67) Type material. Holotype: ovigerous female, NMV J62274, 66 °2’54”–3’S, 49°49’24” E, 738–806 m, off Enderby Land, East Antarctica. Paratypes: ovigerous female, dissected, NMV J62275, 66 °2’54”–3’S, 49°49’24” E, 738– 806 m, off Enderby Land, East Antarctica; subadult male, dissected, NMV J54363, 66 °2’54”–3’S, 49°47’54”– 49°50’E, 690–911 m, off Enderby Land, East Antarctica, 29–30 November 1985. Diagnosis. Carapace with 4 pairs of lateral ridges, covered in small pits, marginal carina entire, ridge present on pseudorostrum; eyelobe without lenses or tumidities. Antennule article 1 not expanded; accessory flagellum 1.0 main flagellum. Telson shorter than uropod peduncles, with 3 terminal setae, central seta less than half length of outer pair. Uropod endopod article 11.4 length of articles 2 and 3 together. Subadult male carapace without pits, dorsoventrally flattened relative to female. Telson as long as uropod peduncles, with 3 equal terminal setae Description. ... : Published as part of Gerken, Sarah, 2018, The Lampropidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of the World, pp. 1-192 in Zootaxa 4428 (1) on pages 164-169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4428.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3769771 ...