Epimeria (Subepimeria) puncticulata K. H. Barnard 1930

• Main Authors: d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem, Verheye, Marie L.
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Epimeriidae; Epimeria; Epimeria puncticulata; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Ross Sea; McMurdo Sound; Pacific; Weddell; Antarctic Ocean; Coleman; Antarc*; Antarctique*; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857581; https://zenodo.org/record/3857581

Epimeria ( Subepimeria ) puncticulata K.H. Barnard, 1930 Epimeria puncticulata K.H. Barnard, 1930: 377, fig. 42. Epimeria puncticulata – Gurjanova 1955: 197. — McCain 1971: 161. — De Broyer 1983: 305 (discussion). — De Broyer & Klages 1991: 164 (key). — Coleman 1994: 569, figs 13–16 [holotype]; 1998b: 223–224 (in part). — Wakabara & Serejo 1999: 643 (key). — Coleman 2007: 48, in part, fig. 25 [holotype], not plate 2 fig. d [= Epimeria ( Subepimeria ) sp.], map 12 (circle) [in part]. Description Basis of description. Description based on the accounts on the holotype published by K.H. Barnard (1930) and Coleman (1994); when illustrations are conflicting, description based on Coleman (1994). ROSTRUM. In lateral view very narrow. EYES. Medium-sized, narrowly elliptic. PEREION–PLEOSOME TOOTH PATTERN. Pereionites 1–7 totally smooth; pleonite 1 with feeble indication of a keel; pleonite 2 keeled with well developed acute posterodorsal tooth; pleonite 3 keeled with posterodorsal tip forming a distinct blunt process distinctly projecting backwards. COXAE 1–2 (cf. Coleman 1994). Tip subacute to rather blunt; coxa 3: tip rounded. COXA 4 (cf. Coleman 1994). Fairly narrow; anterodorsal border nearly straight (inconspicuously convex); anteroventral border weakly convex; anterior corner very broadly rounded but forming a distinct angular discontinuity; the coxa is slightly projecting forward; ventral corner forming a squared angle of which the tip is subacute; posteroventral border distinctly concave; posterodorsal border 0.8 × as long as posteroventral border. COXA 5. Very broad, posteroventral corner forming a blunt but distinct squared angle. COXA 6. Posterior border regularly rounded. COXA 7. Posterior border straight; posteroventral corner forming a distinct obtuse angle. EPIMERAL PLATES 1–3. Posteroventral angle with trace of tooth in plate 1, produced into a small tooth in plate 2, produced into a medium-sized tooth in plates 3. UROSOME TOOTH PATTERN. Urosomite 1 with triangular dorsal process. TELSON. Cleft on 0.2; lobes with tips rounded; notch V-shaped. GNATHOPODS 1–2. With carpus and propodus of normal slenderness; propodus not narrowing distally, and palm distinct but weak. PEREIOPOD 5. Basis of normal width, with posteroproximal process reduced to low proximal dilatation in continuity with the more distal part of the posterior border, with posterodistal corner forming a fairly narrow, acutely triangular tooth projecting backwards; merus, carpus and propodus stout. PEREIOPOD 6. Basis of normal width, with posteroproximal process reduced to very low proximal dilatation nearly in continuity with the more distal part of the posterior border), with posterior border parallel to anterior border, with posterodistal corner forming a triangular process (acute, nearly squared angle) very weakly projecting backwards; merus, carpus and propodus stout. PEREIOPOD 7. Basis broad; posterior border weakly convex, with inconspicuous trace of concavity in distal 0.9, terminated into a very blunt, obtuse angle. Body length Up to 16 mm. Distribution Ross Sea, McMurdo Sound, 175 m (K.H. Barnard 1930). Remarks Watling & Holman (1981) and Coleman (2007) considered Epimeria puncticulata as a single widespread and variable species. Yet, genetic data (COI, 28S) (Verheye et al. 2016a) based on a limited material indicate the existence of four different species refered herein as E. adeliae sp. nov., E. iota sp. nov., E. teres sp. nov. and E. urvillei sp. nov. (Fig. 342). Examination of published illustrations suggest the existence of four additional species: E. geodesiae , E. puncticulata s. str., E. ( Subepimeria ) sp. 1 and E. ( Subepimeria ) sp. 2. Coxa 4 of the holotype of E. puncticulata is different in the drawings of K.H. Barnard (1930) and those of Coleman (1994). This might result from different orientations of the specimens. : Published as part of d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem & Verheye, Marie L., 2017, Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea), pp. 1-553 in European Journal of Taxonomy 359 on pages 148-149, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.359, http://zenodo.org/record/3855694 : {"references": ["Barnard K. H. 1930. Crustacea. Part XI. Amphipoda. British Antarctic (\" Terra Nova \") Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology 8 (4): 307 - 454. Available from http: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 195187 page / 7 / mode / 1 up [accessed 12 Sep. 2017].", "Gurjanova E. F. 1955. 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