Nymphodora Kaiser, 2009, gen. nov.

• Main Author: Kaiser, Stefanie
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Nannoniscidae; Nymphodora; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5334637; https://zenodo.org/record/5334637

Nymphodora gen. nov. Type species: Mirabilicoxa fletcheri Paul & George, 1975 Species composition . Nymphodora fletcheri (Paul & George, 1975) comb. nov. (monotypic). Diagnosis . Body 4.3 times longer than pereonite 2 width, tergits laterally expanding in marginal flanges. 5-segmented antenna 1 with bulbous terminal article, article 4 with distolateral projection. Pereopod 1 shorter, but more robust than pereopods 2–7. Pereopods 5–7 without natatory setae. Pereonites 6, 7 and pleotelson fused dorsally, pereonites 6, 7 or operculum without ventral spine or projection. Posterior margin of operculum strongly rounded. Uropods biramous, endopodite long, projecting posterior margin of pleotelson; exopodite minute. : Published as part of Kaiser, Stefanie, 2009, Nymphodora gen. nov., a new genus of Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota, Janiroidea) from the high Arctic *, pp. 371-380 in Zootaxa 2096 (1) on page 372, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2096.1.22, http://zenodo.org/record/5322094 : {"references": ["Paul, A. Z. & George, R. Y. (1975) High Arctic Benthic Isopods from Fletcher's Ice Island, T- 3, with a description of one new species, Mirabilicoxa fletcheri n. sp. Crustaceana, 29 (2), 166 - 168."]}