Haploniscus astraphes Brökeland & Svavarsson, 2017, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Brökeland, Wiebke, Svavarsson, Jörundur
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Haploniscidae; Haploniscus; Haploniscus astraphes; Greenland; Jörundur; Denmark Strait; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6008812; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6008812

Haploniscus astraphes n. sp. (Figs 1–9) Holotype: DIVA2- HA307, male stage V, 1.01 mm, RV Meteor, M 63/2, DIVA 2 expedition, EBS station 89-6, 0°42.95’N, 5°31.29’W, 5142 m, Guinea Basin, southeast Atlantic, ZMH K-42450. Paratypes: DIVA2- HA308, 1 manca stage III, same locality as holotype, ZMH K-42451; DIVA 2 -HA515, 1 male stage V, 1.04 mm, DIVA2-HA414, 1 female stage IV or V, 1.06 mm, DIVA2- HA415, 1 manca stage III, 0.92 mm, EBS station 90-7, 0°40.49’N, 5°29.71’W, 5142 m, Guinea Basin, ZMH K-42502; DIVA 2 - HA153, 1 female stage IV or V, 1.24 mm, EBS station 45-3, 9°53.76’S, 0°53.60’E, 5657 m, Angola Basin, ZMH K-42503. BIOICE station 2909, RV Bjarni Saemundsson, North Atlantic: 2 females stage IV or V, 1.25 and 1.09 mm, RP sled, 65°15.61’N, 28°50.15’W, 1300 m, 25 August 1996, 3.96°C, Denmark Strait, south of Greenland-Iceland Ridge, IMNH 10370. Etymology. The Greek astraphes, “straight”, refers to the straight outlines of head and pereon in this species. Diagnosis. Body rectangular. Head rectangular in ... : Published as part of Brökeland, Wiebke & Svavarsson, Jörundur, 2017, Distribution of haploniscids (Isopoda, Asellota, Haploniscidae) in Icelandic waters, with description of Haploniscus astraphes n. sp. from the Iceland basin and the Southeast Atlantic Ocean, pp. 301-326 in Zootaxa 4231 (3) on pages 303-313, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/291346 ...