Megamoera similidentata Labay, 2013, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Megamoera; Megamoera similidentata; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5620491; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5620491

Megamoera similidentata sp. nov. Figures 1–9, 34 a Diagnosis. Pleon segments 1–3 with central tooth and 0–3 lateral denticles on each side; pleons 2 and 3 with large central tooth and 3 denticles, first of which is the smallest (may be reduced). Urosome segment 1 with central tooth and 1 lateral denticle; urosome 2 with 2 pairs of short teeth and single cuspidate seta. Telson lobes, proximal subapical notch more on outer margin. Anterior head lobe shallow, lower margin with prominent accessory process. Pereopod 1 (male) broadest distally, palm oblique, sharply angled from posterior margin. Pereopod 2 (male), anterior margin of dactyl strongly setose; palm oblique, convex, with low irregular hinge tooth and stout posterodistal tooth. Maxilla 1, palp segment 1 with 7–8 lateral setae. Maxilla 2, inner plate, facial setae reduced, marginal in position. Uropod 3, proximal segment of outer ramous slender, with 5 clusters of marginal stout simple setae. Type material. Holotype male, 34 mm, X 37855 Cr 1421, the ... : Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2013, Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the costal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Genera Megamoera Bate, 1862 and Armatomelita gen. nov., pp. 65-112 in Zootaxa 3700 (1) on pages 70-80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/217806 ...