Kiwa hirsuta Macpherson & Jones & Segonzac 2005, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Macpherson, Enrique, Jones, William, Segonzac, Michel
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Kiwaidae; Kiwa; Kiwa hirsuta; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4891315; https://zenodo.org/record/4891315

Kiwa hirsuta n. sp. (Figs 3-8) HOLOTYPE. — Male, CL 58.6 mm, 51.5 mm (without rostrum), TL 88.4 mm (MNHN-Ga 5310). The holotype was collected by the slurp gun of the submarine Alvin , dive 4088, 22.III.2005, at the vent site area SEPR named Annie’s Anthill, 37°46.49 ’S, 110°54.72’W, 2228 m. On board, the left fifth pereopod and some seta were dissected and preserved in ethanol for DNA analyses by MBARI team. The specimen was fixed in formalin and transferred in ethanol 80° two days later. ETYMOLOGY. — From the Latin, hirsutus , hairy, in reference to the abundance of setae on pereopods. DESCRIPTION Carapace, excluding rostrum, 1.3 times longer than broad, dorsal surface smooth and sparsely provided with fine uniramous setae. Gastric region extremely depressed, posteriorly separated from anterior branchial and cardiac regions by distinct depression; posterior gastric pit on either side. Cervical groove clearly distinct between gastric and anterior branchial regions; deep posterior branch of cervical groove ... : Published as part of Macpherson, Enrique, Jones, William & Segonzac, Michel, 2005, A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, pp. 709-723 in Zoosystema 27 (4) on pages 713-719, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689563 ...