Eurycope monodon Mursch, Brenke & Wägele, 2008, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Mursch, Andre, Brenke, Nils, Wägele, Johann Wolfgang
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Munnopsidae; Eurycope; Eurycope monodon; Monodon monoceros; narwhal*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5676886; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5676886

Eurycope monodon sp. nov. Material examined Holotype (ZMH K­ 41791), male (2.14 mm), Angola Basin, 17 06.2’ S, 4 41.7’ E to 17 07.5’ S, 4 42.3’ E; Station No. 344, expedition M48:1 RV “ Meteor ”. Paratype (ZMH K­ 41792), female (2.25 mm), same locality. Additional material: 10 males, 10 females (ZMH K­ 41793 ­ K­ 41796) Etymology Named after Monodon monoceros Linné, 1758 (narwhal) referring to its long rostral seta. Diagnosis Eurycope with overhanging rostrum bearing a shallow frontal depression with a conspicuous long anteromedian spine­like seta. Lateral margins of head almost parallel, only slightly converging anteriorly. Each lateral side with 3 stout spine­like setae nearly forming a horizontal line. Pereonites of ambulosome equally shaped, caudally increasing in width. Pereonites of natasome decreasing in width from pereonite 5 to pereonite 7, pereonite 6 two thirds the length of the subequally long pereonites 5 and 7, the latter with straight posterior margin. Lateral edge of pleotelson straight in ... : Published as part of Mursch, Andre, Brenke, Nils & Wägele, Johann Wolfgang, 2008, Results of the DIVA­ 1 Expedition of RV " Meteor " (Cruise M 48: 1): Three new species of Munnopsidae Sars, 1864 from abyssal depths of the Angola Basin (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota) *, pp. 493-539 in Zootaxa 1866 on pages 495-509, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183789 ...