Thermoarcturus venezuelensis Paul & Menzies 1971 ...

• Main Author: Poore, Gary C. B.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Antarcturidae; Thermoarcturus; Thermoarcturus venezuelensis; Menzies; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6109382; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6109382

Thermoarcturus venezuelensis Paul & Menzies, 1971 Figs 4, 5 Thermoarcturus venezuelensis Paul & Menzies, 1971: 33 –34, figs 6, 7.— Kensley & Schotte 1989: 255, fig. 107h. Holotype. Off Venezuela, 11°03’N, 64°37.5’W, 95 m, USNM 136427 (female, 4.5 mm) Material examined. West Indies [US Virgin Islands], Saint Croix, W of Frederiksted, [c. 17°S, 65°W], 500 fm [900 m], T. Mortensen, Ingolf Expedition, 18 Jan 1906, ZMUC CRU- 7102 (male, 8.8 mm); ZMUC CRU- 7141 (ovigerous female, 7.4 mm); ZMUC CRU- 7142 (4 mancas, 3.0– 4.2 mm; 9 males, 5.1–6.2 mm; 2 ovigerous females, 7.1 mm); NMV J58377 (1 manca, 3.2 mm; 5 males, 5.4–7.3 mm; 2 ovigerous females, 6.7 mm). Description. Male, 8.8 mm. ZMUC CRU-7102. Cuticle with tomentum of fine setae over body and appendages. Body linear, strongly geniculate, length about 8.5 times greatest width (pereonite 3); head comprising 0.15 and pleotelson 0.25 total length. Head with pair of dorsolateral spines; pereonites 1–4 each with pair of sublateral acute tubercles long, ... : Published as part of Poore, Gary C. B., 2015, Thermoarcturidae, a new crustacean family of three genera (Isopoda: Valvifera), pp. 409-418 in Zootaxa 4007 (3) on pages 414-417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/245508 ...