Metopa gigas Just, 2013, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Just, Jean
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Stenothoidae; Metopa; Metopa gigas; Alluitsup Paa; East Greenland; Greenland; Kap Farvel; Scoresby Sund; Sydprøven
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6160468; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6160468

Metopa gigas sp. nov. Figs 1–4 Type fixation. Holotype, ♀, here designated. Etymology. The epithet is the Latin noun for Giant. Material examined. Holotype, ♀, 19.0 mm, West Greenland, Godthaabsfjord [Kugssukfjord], approximately 64°N 52°W, ca. 300 m, ‘ Tjalfe’ stn 52, 15 June 1908, ZMUC CRU-20522. Paratypes. Same data as holotype, ZMUC CRU-20523 (15 specimens, juveniles and immature). Southernmost Greenland: S of Akuliaruseq, 60°08.6’N 44°10.7’W, 400– 250 m, rectangular dredge on steep rock face with hydroids, Kap Farvel Expedition, stn 103, 17 August 1970, ZMUC CRU-20524 (1 ♀, 23 immature). Southernmost island in Toqulineq, 60°04.5’N 43°02.7’W, 240 m, stones, gravel, clay, Bryozoa, rectangular dredge, Kap Farvel Expedition, stn 136, 25 August 1970, ZMUC CRU-20525 (1 3, 19.1 mm). Off Sydprøven [Alluitsup Paa], 60°20’N 47°27’W, 120 m, on Hydroida, ottertrawl, ‘ Godthaab’ Expedition, stn 188, 10 October 1928, ZMUC CRU-20526 (1 specimen *). East Greenland: Scoresby Sund, Stewart Land, 70°30’N, 300 m, East ... : Published as part of Just, Jean, 2013, Metopa gigas sp. nov. from southern Greenland, a giant among congeners (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Stenothoidae), pp. 289-295 in Zootaxa 3641 (3) on pages 289-294, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/224243 ...