Fissarcturus walteri Brandt, 2013, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Antarcturidae; Fissarcturus; Fissarcturus walteri; Antarc*; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6151671; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6151671

Fissarcturus walteri sp. nov. (Figs 2–6) Material examined. Holotype. 3 (11.5 mm), ZMH K- 43512; Cape Hallet, station H in 5, 16 February 2004, 72°17.2’S 170°17.9’E, 84 m depth, Rauschert dredge. Paratype. Juvenile (7.2 mm), ZMH K- 43513, collected from same locality as holotype. Type locality. Southern Ocean, Ross Sea, Cape Hallet. Composition. For species composition see Poore & Schotte 2012 (World list of Marine Isopoda). Diagnosis. Supraocular spines blunt, short, anteriorly directed, followed by small pair of oval elevations and larger pair of rounded elevations on posterior margin of cephalon. Supracoxal spines reduced to small blunt rounded elevations. Description of holotype male. Body (Fig. 2) in lateral and partly dorsal view, 5.75 times as long as wide, dorsally mostly smooth, with only shallow elevations and few blunt spines on pleotelson and shallow blunt supracoxal elevations laterally on pereonites. Supraocular spines short, blunt directed frontally, followed by pair of oval elevations and ... : Published as part of Brandt, Angelika, 2013, Fissarcturus walteri sp. nov. from the Ross Sea of the Southern Ocean (Isopoda, Antarcturidae), pp. 339-348 in Zootaxa 3670 (3) on pages 341-342, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/216094 ...