Doropygus tuberculatus Kim & Boxshall 2020, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Kim, Il-Hoi, Boxshall, Geoff A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Cyclopoida; Notodelphyidae; Doropygus; Doropygus tuberculatus; Antarctic; Herdman; South Georgia Island; Antarc*; Copepods
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5699845; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5699845

Doropygus tuberculatus sp. nov. (Figs. 214, 215) Typematerial. Holotype (intact ♀, MNHN-IU-2014- 21306) and paratype (♀, dissected and mounted on a slide, MNHN-IU-2014-21307) from Molgula pedunculata (Herdman, 1881), CEAMARC/cruise, Terre Adelie, Antarctic (67°02 Ś, 140°00 É), depth 180-205 m, 30 December 2007. Additionalmaterial. 1 ♀ (dissected) from Molgula hodgsoni Herdman, 1910, South Georgia Island, South Atlantic. Etymology. The specific name refers to the presence of the tapering distal tubercle on the caudal ramus. Description of female. Body (Fig. 214A) of nonovigerous adult slender, withsmall brood pouch. Body length 3.37 mm. Metasome 4-segmented with fifth pedigerous somite incorporated into brood pouch. Free urosome (Fig 214B) 5-segmented: genitalsomite short, 150×378 μm; 4 abdominalsomites 306×363, 299×340, 230×300, and 190×265 μm, respectively. Caudalramus (Fig. 214C) slender, 5.5 timeslongerthan wide (334×61 μm), graduallynarrowing distally; armedwith 6 small setae and tapering distal tubercle ... : Published as part of Kim, Il-Hoi & Boxshall, Geoff A., 2020, Untold diversity: the astonishing species richness of the Notodelphyidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), a family of symbiotic copepods associated with ascidians (Tunicata), pp. 1-6 in Megataxa 4 (1) on pages 323-326, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.4.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4591138 ...