Synanarthrura celtica Bird, 2004, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Bird, Graham
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Anarthruridae; Synanarthrura; Synanarthrura celtica; Seta; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5621945; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5621945

Synanarthrura celtica sp. nov. (Figs. 17–18) Anarthruropsis sp.A: Holdich & Bird, 1985: 443 table 1. Anarthrura sp.1: Holdich & Bird, 1989: tables III, IV and appendices as taxon ‘25’. Material examined. Holotype: BIOGAS VI Stn DS86, neuter, (MNHN). Paratypes: SMBA Stn SBC160, five mancae­II, three neuters (NHM 1988:539). Description. Neuter/non­ovigerous female. Body (Fig. 17 A) fairly stout, 5.5 times longer than broad. Length 1.7–2.46 mm. Cephalothorax relatively large, 18 % of body length, as wide as long, tapering for rostral third, and with shallow caudal medial cleft. Pereonites 1 and 2 narrower caudally; pereonites 3–6 with rounded corners, 0.36, 0.47, 0.58, 1.0, 1.0 and 0.77 times as long as broad respectively. Pleon 15% of body length, slightly narrowing caudally into pleotelson, epimera with marginal seta. Pleotelson (Fig. 17 B) just over half as long as broad, subrectangular apart from small apical process, bearing group of three setae on each caudolateral margin and four terminal setae. ... : Published as part of Bird, Graham, 2004, Tanaidacea (Crustacea) of the Northeast Atlantic: non­filiform species of Anarthruridae Lang from the Atlantic Margin, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 471 on pages 37-40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157876 ...