Macrostylis scotti Riehl & Brandt, 2013, n. sp. ...

• Published in: Applied Optics
• Main Authors: Riehl, Torben, Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Macrostylidae; Macrostylis; Macrostylis scotti; South pole; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5681366; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5681366

Macrostylis scotti n. sp. (Figs 2–10) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8EBFDE96-E5CB-4D62-A56D-8E23B910EDC7 Etymology. The name “s cotti” is dedicated to the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott CVO, in order to mark the 100th anniversary of his heroic trial to be the first person to reach the geographic South Pole. He reached the pole second, after Roald Amundsen, and died on this ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition around the 29th March 1912. Type fixation. Holotype (Figs 2, 3): adult male, 5.4 mm, ZMH K-42990, designated here. Type material examined. Holotype: adult male, 5.4 mm, ZMH K-42990, used for the illustration of the habitus and DNA studies. Paratypes: adult male, 5.1 mm, ZMH K-42991, dissected for illustrations of appendages and habitus as well as DNA studies; non-ovigerous female, 5.3 mm, ZMH K-42992, dissected for illustration of appendages and DNA studies. Type material - Remarks. The holotype is comlplete except for posterior pereopods that have been removed from one side for DNA studies; complete ... : Published as part of Riehl, Torben & Brandt, Angelika, 2013, Southern Ocean Macrostylidae reviewed with a key to the species and new descriptions from Maud Rise, pp. 160-203 in Zootaxa 3692 (1) on pages 166-178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3692.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/220612 ...