Epimeria (Metepimeria) acanthurus

• Main Authors: d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem, Verheye, Marie L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Epimeriidae; Epimeria; Epimeria acanthurus; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Patagonia; Coleman; Lowry; Burdwood Bank; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857583; https://zenodo.org/record/3857583

Epimeria ( Metepimeria ) acanthurus (Schellenberg, 1931) Metepimeria acanthurus Schellenberg, 1931: 162, fig. 85, pl. 1. fig. G. Epimeria acanthurus – K.H. Barnard 1932: 176, fig. 104B, 108, pl. 1. fig. 2. Metepimeria acanthurus – Watling & Holman 1981: 216–217, fig. 22. — Coleman 2007: 61, fig. 36, map 1 (rhomb). ‘ Epimeria inermis 1’ – Rauschert & Arntz 2015: 61, pl. 54. non Epimeria inermis Walker, 1903: 54, pl. 10, fig. 69. Body length 22 mm (Coleman 2007). Colour pattern White with scarce suffusions of orange; eyes reddish (photograph of Rauschert & Arntz 2015 as ‘ Epimeria inermis 1’). Distribution Magellanic Region: Patagonia, Falkland Islands, 27–494 m (De Broyer et al. 2007), Burdwood Bank, 296–299 m (see remarks). Remarks The specimen labelled ‘ Epimeria inermis 1’ in Rauschert & Arntz (2015) does not correspond to the description of E. inermis : it exhibits important differences in the shape of coxa 4, and the dorsal profiles of pleonite 3 and urosomite 1. The morphology of this specimen is more similar to E. acanthurus as illustrated by Coleman (2007), and it is therefore identified as such. Rauschert & Arntz (2015) do not indicate the collection details of their specimen, but this information was found in an early draft of their book made available to the authors: ANT XIX [obviously ANT-XIX/5], LAMPOS, station 153 [i.e., 153-1]. The coordinates of this station are: 54°32.75ʹ S 56°09.84ʹ W to 54°31.22ʹ S 56°08.93ʹ W [Burdwood Bank], 296– 299 m. : 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 117-118, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.359, http://zenodo.org/record/3855694 : {"references": ["Schellenberg A. 1931. Gammariden und Caprelliden des Magellangebietes, Sudgeorgiens und der Westantarktis. Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1903 2 (6): 1 - 290, pl. 1.", "Barnard K. H. 1932. Amphipoda. Discovery Report 5: 1 - 326, pl. 1. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 5607801 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].", "Watling L. & Holman H. 1981. Additional acanthonotozomatid, paramphitoid and stegocephalid Amphipoda from the Southern Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (1): 181 - 227. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34608032 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].", "Coleman C. O. 2007. Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Volume 2: Acanthonotozomellidae, Amathillopsidae, Dikwidae, Epimeriidae, Iphimediidae, Ochlesidae and Vicmusiidae. Bullelin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie / Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Biologie 77, supplement 2: 1 - 134.", "Rauschert M. & Arntz W. E. 2015. Antarctic Macrobenthos. A Field Guide of the Invertebrates Living at the Antarctic Seafloor: Arntz & Rauschert Selbstverlag, Deichweg.", "Walker A. O. 1903. Amphipoda of the \" Southern Cross \" Antarctic Expedition. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 29: 38 - 64, pls 7 - 11. http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31597966 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].", "De Broyer C., Lowry J. K., Jazdzewski K. & Robert H. 2007. Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean with distribution and ecological data. Synopses of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean 1: 1 - 325. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels. Available from www. marinespecies. org / aphia. php? p = sourceget & id = 10098 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016]."]}