Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler 1977

• Main Author: Kaiser, Stefanie
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Nannoniscidae; Hebefustis; Weddell Sea; Pacific; Weddell; Menzies; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5698406; https://zenodo.org/record/5698406

Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977 Synonymy: Nannoniscoides Menzies, 1962: 134; Nannoniscus Menzies, 1962: 137; Birstein, 1963 a: 83–85. Type species: Hebefustis vafer Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977 Diagnosis (after Siebenaller & Hessler 1977, Kaiser 2008). Body broadened, length about 3.8 pereonite 2 width; dorsal cuticle bearing numerous setules. 5 -segmented antennula with inflated, elongated terminal article; article 3 and 4 of similar length, without lateral projection. Pereopod I more robust and shorter than pereopods II–VII; carpus and propodus of pereopod I with few (≤ 4) robust, unequally bifid setae, dactylus with a short, robust ventral spine distally. Pereonites 6–7 medially fused. Pleotelson with posterolateral spines. Uropods biramous, short, hardly projecting beyond posterior margin; endopod and exopod nearly of same length. Species composition. Hebefustis alleni Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977; H. clareolithis Kaiser, 2008; H. cornutus Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977; H. dispar Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977; H. juansenii sp. n. H. hexadentium Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977; H. hirsutus (Menzies, 1962); H. mollicellus Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977; H. par Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977; H. primitivus (Menzies, 1962); H. robustus (Birstein, 1963 a); H. vafer Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977; H. vecino sp. n. H. vitjazi Mezhov, 1986. : Published as part of Kaiser, Stefanie, 2014, New species of Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler 1977 (Isopoda, Asellota, Nannoniscidae) from the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (equatorial NE Pacific), pp. 101-119 in Zootaxa 3784 (2) on page 104, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/225955 : {"references": ["Siebenaller, J. F. & Hessler, R. R. (1977) The Nannoniscidae (Isopoda, Asellota): Hebefustis n. gen. and Nannoniscoides Hansen. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 19, 17 - 44.", "Menzies, R. J. (1962) The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. Vema Research Series, 1, 79 - 206.", "Birstein, J. A. (1963 a) Deep-sea isopod crustaceans of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Institute of Oceanology of the U. S. S. R., Akademii Nauk, Moscow, 213 pp. [in Russian, with English summary]", "Kaiser, S. (2008) First record and new species of the genus Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977 (Isopoda: Asellota: Nannoniscidae) from the deep Weddell Sea Basin. Zootaxa, 1866, 467 - 481.", "Mezhov, B. V. (1986) Bathyal and abyssal Nannoniscidae and Desmosomatidae (Isopoda, Asellota) from Alaska Bay. Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 24 (1986), 126 - 167. [in Russian]"]}