Poorea wrighti Edgar, 2012, n. sp. ...

• Main Author: Edgar, Graham J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Leptocheliidae; Poorea; Poorea wrighti; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6178700; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6178700

Poorea wrighti n. sp. (Figs 10–11) Material examined. Holotype. Male (NMV J62318), 2.1 mm, Cliff Head, WA (29.52°S 114.99°E), 1 m depth, seagrass (Amphibolis antarctica) washings, 4 December 1986. Paratypes. Three males (NMV J62319), Seven Mile Beach, WA (29.17°S 114.89°E), 1 m depth, seagrass (Amphibolis antarctica and A. griffithii) washings, June 1985 – June 1987. Other material. Six males, (NMV J62320) Bickley Point, Rottnest Island, WA (32.00°S 115.56°E), seagrass washings, 0.5 m depth, 10 Jan 1991. Description. MALE. Body (Fig. 10). Observed length 1.3–2.1 mm; red colouration when freshly preserved; body about eight times longer than broad; cephalothorax subrectangular, laterally slightly convex, approximately one-sixth body length; eyes very large, ovoid, about one-third length of cephalothorax. Pereon just over half total length; pereonite-1 length about one-third width; pereonites 2 and 3 similar, about 1.5 times length of pereonite-1, length about half width; pereonite 4 and 5 similar, about 1.3 ... : Published as part of Edgar, Graham J., 2012, New Leptocheliidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha) from Australian seagrass and macro-algal habitats, and a redescription of the poorly-known Leptochelia ignota from Sydney Harbour, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3276 on pages 19-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.212118 ...