Megamphopus katagani Bakir, Sezgin & Myers, 2011, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Bakir, Kerem, Sezgin, Murat, Myers, Alan A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Isaeidae; Megamphopus; Megamphopus katagani; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6186302; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6186302

Megamphopus katagani sp. nov. (Figs 2, 3) Type material. Holotype, male, 2.9 mm., ESFM-MAL/2010-2220, entrance of the Dardanelles in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey, 40°26'28"N 27°05'09"E, on coralligene bottom, April 2010. Paratypes, 76 males, 112 females, ESFM-MAL/ 2010-2221, dissected and figured paratype, 2.9 mm, ESFM-MAL/ 2010-2222, same data as holotype. Type locality. Entrance of the Dardanelles in the Sea of Marmara. Etymology. Named in honour of the carcinologist Prof. Dr. Tuncer Katagan, who always encourages young scientists. Description. Based on male holotype 2.9 mm. Head. Head ocular lobes strongly produced, rounded, sub-ocular margin strongly recessed. Eye subovoid to subreniform. Antennae missing (absent also in all paratypes). Mandible palp article 3 spatulate, shorter than article 2. Maxilla 1 inner plate without setae. Maxilla 2 inner plate with facial setal row. Maxilliped dactylus broad. Pereon. Gnathopod 1 coxa subrectangular, not produced forward; basis elongate, slender; carpus subovoid, a ... : Published as part of Bakir, Kerem, Sezgin, Murat & Myers, Alan A., 2011, A new species of amphipod, Megamphopus katagani sp. nov. (Crustacea: Peracarida: Photidae) from the Sea of Marmara (Turkey), with a key to the species of Megamphopus in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and associated Seas, pp. 63-67 in Zootaxa 2791 on pages 64-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207651 ...