Schizoproctus frigidus Kim & Boxshall 2021, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Kim, Il-Hoi, Boxshall, Geoff A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Cyclopoida; Ascidicolidae; Schizoproctus; Schizoproctus frigidus; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Antarc*; Copepods
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5047118; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5047118

Schizoproctus frigidus sp. nov. (Figs. 73, 74) Type material. Holotype ♀ (MNHN-IU-2018-1980, dissected and mounted on a slide) from Cçrella antarctẚca Sluiter, 1905; Antarctic Ocean, Eltanin cruise 12, Stn 1078 (61°26´S, 41°55.4´W), depth 604 m, 12 April 1964. Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin frẚg (cold), referring to its discovery in Antarctic waters. Description of female. Body (Fig. 73A) robust, 2.88 mm long. Anterior part of body unsegmented and inflated; cephalosome defined from metasome by faint dorsal constriction. Posterior part of body (Fig. 73B) consisting of genital somite and 4-segmented abdomen. Genital somite much wider than long (205×487 μm) incompletely ar- ticulated from first abdominal somite. First and second abdominal somites 354×436 and 230×385 μm, respectively; third and fourth abdominal somites indistinctly articulated from each other, 128×297 and 210×270 μm, respectively. Caudal ramus (Fig. 73C) about 107×135 μm, armed with 4 claws and 2 setae; lengths of claws ... : Published as part of Kim, Il-Hoi & Boxshall, Geoff A., 2021, Copepods (Cyclopoida) associated with ascidian hosts: Ascidicolidae, Buproridae, Botryllophilidae, and Enteropsidae, with descriptions of 84 new species, pp. 1-286 in Zootaxa 1 on pages 115-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4978.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4820443 ...