Quasimelita tolyza Labay, 2014, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Quasimelita; Quasimelita tolyza; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5677647; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5677647

Quasimelita tolyza sp. nov. Figures 1 –8, 30a Diagnosis. Anterior head lobe large, rounded, lower margin with a short notch. Eye small, oval. Pleon segments 1–3 with central tooth and 1 lateral denticle on each side. Urosome segment 1 with central tooth and 1 lateral denticle on each side; urosome 2 with 2 pairs of short teeth, with single cuspidate seta among each lateral pair. Maxilla 1, inner plate with numerous marginal setae; palp segment 1 with 7 lateral setae. Maxilla 2, facial setae of inner plate not reduced (19–20 setae), distally medial, closely submarginal. Coxa 1 without acute anterior corner; margins of all coxae without distinct serrations. Coxal plates 1 and 2 longer than plates 3 and 4. Propodus of pereopod 1 (male) relatively small, shorter than carpus, oval, palm indistinct, without distinct palmar angle. Pereopod 2 (male), anterior margin of dactyl strongly setose; palm oblique, strongly convex, with large tooth on the palmar corner. Basis of pereopod 7 with poorly developed and slightly ... : Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2014, Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934, pp. 237-280 in Zootaxa 3869 (3) on pages 242-250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/251715 ...