Melitoides kawaii Labay, 2014, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Melitoides; Melitoides kawaii; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5677658; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5677658

Melitoides kawaii sp. nov. Figures 24–29, 30 e Diagnosis. Pereon segments without dorsal teeth and denticles. Pleon segment 1 smooth; pleon 2–3 moderately mid-dorsally toothed or humped. Urosome segments 1 & 2 mid-dorsally toothed. Inferior antennal sinus shallow, cusp regressed. Eye small, indistinct, with a few ommatidia. Antenna 1 medium, peduncular segment 3 relatively short; accessory flagellum 4-segmented; flagellum short (22+ segments). Antenna 2, peduncle 3 short; flagellum longer than peduncle 5, 10-segmented. Telson lobes appearing fused basally, apices each with single short strong seta. Maxilla 2, inner plate, facial setae row not reduced, submarginal. Maxilliped, inner plate not exceeding the distal margin of palp segment 2. Coxae 2–4 deeper than broad. Pereopod 2 (male), propodus, anterior and posterior margins subparallel, palm nearly perpendicular, anterior margin of dactyl rarely setose. Pereopods 6–7 elongate. Pereopods 5–6, bases broad. Pereopod 7 base ralatively narrow, weakly ... : 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 270-277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/251715 ...