Campylaspis vasilescui Petrescu 2018, sp. nov.

• Main Author: Petrescu, Iorgu
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Cumacea; Nannastacidae; Campylaspis; Campylaspis vasilescui; Hale; Seta; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5237079; https://zenodo.org/record/5237079

Campylaspis vasilescui sp. nov. Fig. 36 Holotype ♂, 2.77 mm, P.88259, Australia, WA, Cape Range National Park, inshore limestone reef off Neds Camp, -21.98° 113.92°, 1.5 m, sponge covered with epiphytic algae, muddy worm tubes, sediment, 2 Jan 1984, R. T. Springthorpe, WA 364, in AM. Etymology . The species is dedicated in honour of George Vasilescu, neurophysician, in eternal gratitude for all he did to save my life in 2005. Diagnosis . Carapace, 0.56 total body length, lateral sulcus almost entire carapace length; maxilliped 3 merus 3.9 ischium length; pereopod 2 dactylus 3.2 propodus length, robust short terminal; uropodal peduncle 1.43 pleonite 6, 1.7 endopod length; exopod 0.92 endopod length; endopod with 2 simple setae and 1 sensory subterminal seta medially. Description . Carapace , 0.56 body length, 1.97 as long as high, 1.59 as long as wide, lateral sulcus almost entire carapace length; large frontal lobe with large eye lobe without lenses, toothed anterior margin of pseudorostrum; smooth integument; small antennal notch; pseudorostrum 0.4 carapace length (Fig. 36 A, B). — Antenna 1 with robust peduncle, article 1 0.3 rest of article’s length; article 2 0.9 article 1 length; article 3 as long as article 1; short sensory seta on outer margin of middle article; main flagellum 1.45 article 3 length; accessory flagellum with 1 article; aesthetascs 0.6 main flagellum length (Fig. 36 C). — Maxilliped 3 , robust articles, basis 0.73 rest of article’s length, with 4 plumose setae; margin, merus 3.9 ischium length, with 1 pappose and 5 simple setae, merus to propodus with serrate margins; carpus 0.28 merus length, with 1 pappose seta; propodus 1.27 carpus length, with 1 plumose and 3 pappose setae; dactylus 0.28 propodus length, with 2 simple setae; with exopod (Fig. 36 D). — Pereopod 1 basis 0.73 rest of article’s length, with 2 pappose setae; ischium with 1 pappose seta; merus 3.14 ischium length, with 2 simple and 2 pappose setae; carpus 0.65 merus length, with 1 simple, 1 plumose and 3 pappose setae; propodus 0.8 carpus length, with 2 simple and 3 pappose setae; dactylus 0.66 propodus length, with 4 simple setae; with exopod (Fig. 36 E). — Pereopod 2 basis 0.47 rest of article’s length, with 1 plumose seta; merus 4 ischium length, with 1 simple and 1 plumose seta; carpus 1.45 merus length, with 1 plumose, 1 simple and 2 pappose setae; dactylus 3.2 propodus length, with 7 simple setae and terminal 1 simple short and 1 simple, 0.68 dactylus length; with exopod (Fig. 36 F). — Pereopod 3 , basis 1.06 rest of article’s length, basis with serrate margins, with 1 simple and 1 plumose seta; ischium with 2 simple setae; merus 3 ischium length, with 2 simple setae; carpus 1.3 carpus length, with 1 simple short seta and hyaline fringe; propodus 0.29 carpus length, with 1 simple seta; dactylus 0.6 propodus length, 1 simple and 1 robust terminal seta; with exopod (Fig. 36 G). — Pereopod 4 basis 0.83 rest of article’s length, with 2 simple setae; merus 2.2 ischium length, with 1 simple seta; carpus 1.45 merus length, with 2 simple setae; propodus 3.2 carpus length, with 1 simple seta; dactylus 0.7 propodus length, with 1 simple seta; with exopod (Fig. 36 H). — Pereopod 5 basis 0.48 rest of article’s length; ischium with 1 simple seta; merus 2.6 ischium length, with 1 simple seta; carpus with serrate margins, as long as ischium and merus length, with 1 annulate seta; propodus 0.4 carpus length, with 1 annulate seta; dactylus fused with terminal short robust seta (Fig. 36 I). — Uropod peduncle 1.43 pleonite 6, serrate margins, 1.72 endopod length, with 6 simple setae; exopod 0.9 endopod length, with 7 simple setae, terminal robust seta 0.88 exopod length; endopod with serrate margins, 2 short simple and 1 sensory robust subterminal seta medially and 1 terminal robust sensory seta, 0.44 endopod length (Fig. 36 J). Remarks . The new species Campylaspis vasilescui resembles other species, C . johnstoni Hale, 1937, C. edenensis Petrescu, 2006, C. hangiuae sp. nov. and C. oneai sp. nov. Distribution . Australia: WA—Cape Range National Park, at 1.5 m depth. : Published as part of Petrescu, Iorgu, 2018, On the Family Nannastacidae (Crustacea, Cumacea) from the Australian Museum Collection, pp. 1-111 in Records of the Australian Museum 70 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1645, http://zenodo.org/record/5236860 : {"references": ["Petrescu, I. 2006. Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from eastern Bass Strait, the south-eastern Australian slope, and Antarctica in the collections of Museum Victoria. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (2): 129 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.24199 / j. mmv. 2006.63.14"]}