Quasimelita jarettii 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 jarettii; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5677649; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5677649

Quasimelita jarettii sp. nov. Figures 1, 9–15, 30 b Diagnosis. Pleon segments without dorsal armament. Urosome segment 1 with central large tooth; urosome 2 with 2 short teeth and 2 cuspidate seta. Anterior head lobe large, rounded, lower margin smooth. Eye small, round. Coxa 1 with rounded anterior corner; margins of all coxae without distinct serrations. Lower edges of coxal plates 1–4 in a straight line. Propodus of pereopod 1 (male) relatively small, shorter than carpus, not broad distally, palm slightly oblique, smooth palm that is armed distally with numerous closely set small cuspidate setae. Pereopod 2 (male), anterior margin of dactyl strongly setose; palm oblique, stepwise, with stout simple setae on ledges and along the palmar margin. Maxilla 1, inner plate with 6–8 marginal setae; palp segment 1 with 6–10 lateral setae. Maxilla 2, facial setae of inner plate very reduced (4–5 setae), distally medial, closely submarginal. Uropod 3 very long, proximal segment of outer ramous slender, tapering ... : 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 250-259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/251715 ...