Spectrarcturus Schultz 1981

• Main Authors: Stransky, Bente, Svavarsson, Jörundur, Poore, Gary C. B., Kihara, Terue Cristina
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Arcturidae; Spectrarcturus; Benedict; Jörundur; Pacific; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332839; https://zenodo.org/record/4332839

Key to species of Spectrarcturus (females) 1a Posterior end of pleotelson bifid.......................................................................... 2 1b Posterior end of pleotelson rounded, pointed or truncated...................................................... 4 2a Distolateral spine on article 3 of antenna about as long as article width.......................... S. hystrix (Sars, 1877) 2b Distolateral spine on article 3 of antenna short, much shorter than article width.................................... 3 3a Pleotelson with tubercles on most dorsal surface....................................... S. murdochi (Benedict, 1898) 3b Pleotelson only with long spines on anterior part.................................. S. intermedius (Richardson, 1899) 4a Pleotelson bluntly truncated, slightly convex apically............................... S. chlebovitschi (Kussakin, 1972) 4b Pleotelson rounded or pointed apically.................................................................... 5 5a Pleotelson widely rounded apically; body without dense setae.................................................. 6 5b Pleotelson pointed apically; body densely setose............................................................. 7 6a Body with numerous short, rounded tubercles............................... S. iturupicus (Kussakin & Mezhov, 1979) 6b Body with several long, slender spines on each pereonite................................ S. toporoki (Kussakin, 1972) 7a Pleotelson distally narrowly pointed; pereonite 4 twice as long as pereonite 3.............. S. fabulosus (Gurjanova, 1955) 7b Pleotelson distally narrow, tounge-like; pereonite 4 1.7 times as long as pereonite 3........... S. furcatus (Kussakin, 1982) : Published as part of Stransky, Bente, Svavarsson, Jörundur, Poore, Gary C. B. & Kihara, Terue Cristina, 2020, Revision of Pleuroprion zur Strassen, 1903 (Holidoteidae) and re-evaluation of Spectrarcturus Schultz, 1981 (Arcturidae) (Crustacea, Isopoda, Valvifera), pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 4894 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4315364 : {"references": ["Sars, G. O. (1877) Prodromus descriptionis crustaceorum et pycnogonidarum, quae in expeditione norvegica anno 1876 observavit. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, 2, 237 - 271.", "Benedict, J. E. (1898) The Arcturidae of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 12, 41 - 51.", "Kussakin, O. G. (1972) Isopoda from the coastal zone of the Kurile Islands. III. Three new arcturids from the Middle Kurils with taxonomic remarks on the family Arcturidae. Crustaceana, Supplement 3, 178 - 189.", "Kussakin, O. G. & Mezhov, B. V. (1979) Isopod Crustacea of the sublittoral and the upper bathyal zone of the Kurile Islands. In: Kussakin, O. G. (Ed.), Biology of the shelf of the Kurile Islands. Academy of Sciences, Far East Center, USSR, Moscow, pp. 125 - 199. [in Russian]", "Gurjanova, E. F. (1955) The isopod crustacean fauna (Isopoda) of the Pacific Ocean VI. New species of Valvifera from the Kurile-Sakhalin Region. Trudy Instituta Zoologii Akademia Nauk USSR, 21, 208 - 230. [in Russian]", "Kussakin, O. G. (1982) Morskye I solonovatovodnye ravnonogie rakoobrasnye (Isopoda) cholodnix I umerennix vod severnogo polushariya [Marine and brackish water like-footed crustaceans (Isopoda) of cold and temperate waters of the North- ern Hemisphere]. Podotryadi Anthuridea, Microcerberidea, Valvifera, Tyloidea. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR, 131 (2), 1 - 463. [in Russian]"]}