Centromedon zoe Horton & Thurston, 2011, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Horton, Tammy, Thurston, Michael
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Uristidae; Centromedon; Centromedon zoe; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191149; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6191149

Centromedon zoe sp. nov. (Figures 1–3) Type material. Holotype: female, 6.5 mm and 9 slides, NHMUK 2011.925. Allotype: male 6.3 mm (and one slide mount of antennae) NHMUK 2011.946. Paratypes: 12 mature females, average 6.5 mm (4.9–7.0 mm), NHMUK 2011.926 – 935; 12 mature males, average 6.1 mm (5.5–7.3 mm), NHMUK 2011.936 – 945; 5 mature females and 5 mature males (AM P.85244); collected at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the northern Atlantic Ocean, RRV James Cook, (cruise 011), station number JC011/098; freefall, acoustically-released, baited trap, deployed at 1313 hrs (UTC) 9 August 2007, 54° 04.08' N, 34° 09.43' W at 2500 m, released at 1125 hrs, 11 September 2007; bottom time, 46 hrs. Additional material. 678 specimens, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, JC011/079, 05–07/08/2007, 53°56.44'N, 36°11.56'W, 2564 m; 1861 specimens, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, JC011/114, 12–13/08/2007, 54°02.31'N, 34°09.60'W, 2453 m; 860 specimens, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, JC011/098, 09–11/08/2007, 54°04.08'N, 34°09.43'W, 2500 m. 879 specimens, base of Sedlo ... : Published as part of Horton, Tammy & Thurston, Michael, 2011, Centromedon zoe (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae), a new deep-water scavenger species from the North Atlantic, with a key to the genus Centromedon, pp. 54-62 in Zootaxa 2869 on pages 56-61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277530 ...