Sphyrapus meknes Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Bamber & Cunha, 2011, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Bamber, Roger N., Cunha, Marina R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Sphyrapodidae; Sphyrapus; Sphyrapus meknes; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6195552; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6195552

Sphyrapus meknes sp. nov. (Figs 17–19) Material. 1 brooding Ƥ, holotype (BMNH.2010.468), 1 subadult Ƥ, dissected on three microscope slides, paratype (BMNH.2010.469), Cruise TTR14, Station AT541, Meknès mud volcano, 34°59.103’N 07°04.435’W, 703 m depth, mud breccia and H2S, TV-grab, Cruise TTR14, 0 5.08.2004. Coll. MRC. Description of female. Body (Fig. 17), dorsoventrally flattened, elongate, holotype 2.3 mm long, 4.8 times as long as wide, narrowing posteriorly. Cephalothorax subrectangular, slightly longer than wide, anterior margin with conspicuous rounded rostrum. Eyes absent; eyelobes very small; single fine seta posterior to anterolateral corners. Pereonite 1 fused to cephalothorax, one third as long as cephalothorax, laterally rounded, naked. Five free pereonites lateral margins uniformly convex, with three (pereonites 2 to 4), two (pereonite 5) or one (pereonite 6) lateral setae; pereonite 2 as long as but narrower than pereonite 1; pereonites 3 and 5 subequal in length, just longer than pereonite ... : Published as part of Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Bamber, Roger N. & Cunha, Marina R., 2011, Apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from mud-volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz (North-east Atlantic), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 2919 on pages 29-33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277889 ...