Cerviniella hitoshii Kihara & Arbizu, 2012, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Kihara, Terue C., Arbizu, Pedro Martínez
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Harpacticoida; Cerviniidae; Cerviniella; Cerviniella hitoshii; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; laptev; Laptev Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5616009; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5616009

Cerviniella hitoshii sp. nov. (Figs 11–15, 20–21) Type locality. Arctic Ocean, Laptev Sea (78°08.19' N, 133°19.94' E), 796 m depth. Type material. Holotype female dissected on 16 slides (reg. no. SMF 37031) from station PS27#038/2458-1, multi corer 6, collected 05/09/1993. Undissected paratypes consist of 3 copepodites (CII, CIII and CIV with reg. nos. SMF 37032, 37033 and 37034, respectively) from station PS27#047/2465-1, multi corer 1–4, collected 08/09/ 1993. All material collected by the junior author during the Expedition ARCTIC’93, Leg ARK-IX/4 of RV Polarstern. Description. FEMALE. Total body length 772.0 μm. Largest width measured at posterior margin of cephalic shield: 272.0 μm. Body (Figs 11 A, 20A–C) with no clear distinction between prosome and urosome, body somites gradually tapering posteriorly. Prosome (Figs 11 A, 20A–C, 21D) 4-segmented, with first pedigerous somite incorporated into cephalothorax. Cephalothorax with anastomosing pattern near rostrum (Fig. 21 C) and along margins (Figs 11 A, ... : Published as part of Kihara, Terue C. & Arbizu, Pedro Martínez, 2012, Three new species of Cerviniella Smirnov, 1946 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Arctic, pp. 1-33 in Zootaxa 3345 on pages 19-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.281475 ...