Armatomelita Labay, 2013, n. gen. ...

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Armatomelita; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5620505; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5620505

Genus Armatomelita n. gen. Type material: Holotype: X 37868 Cr 1434. Paratypes X 37869 Cr 1435, X 37870 Cr 1436. Type locality: Aniva Bay (Sea of Okhotsk) (46° 37' 7.45" N, 142° 55' 49.56" E, 20 m). Type species. Armatomelita tshaensis n. sp. Diagnosis. Pereon segment 7 with medial dorsal tooth and with two accessory teeth on each side. Pleon segments 1–3 with medial dorsal tooth and with three accessory teeth on each side. Urosome segment 1, mediodorsal vertical tooth with 2 accessory teeth, one in front of another on each side. Urosome 2 with dorsolateral pairs of teeth each astride single simple cuspidate seta (Watling type II.A.3) (Watling 1989). Head, anterior lobe rounded, lower margin with small accessory processes; inferior antennal sinus narrowly notched. Antenna 1 regular, antenna 2 much shorter than antenna 1. Mouthparts regular. Upper lip shallow notched. Lower lip regular, inner lobes well developed. Mandible, raker setae row with numerouse blades (8–10); left lacinia 6-dentate, right lacinia 5 ... : 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 page 101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/217806 ...