Belonectes grasslei Malyutina & Brandt, 2009, sp. nov. ...

Belonectes grasslei sp. nov. (Figs 1 – 7) Material examined. Holotype. male (1.9 mm), ZMH K- 42034, ANDEEP III St. 78 – 9 – E, 22 February 2005, 71°09.52’ – 09.34’S, 14°00.76’ – 13°58.85’ W, 2149 m. Allotype. Preparatory female (2.2 mm), ZMH K- 42035, same locality as holotype. Paratypes. ZMH K-4203...

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Main Authors: Malyutina, Marina V., Brandt, Angelika
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Published: Zenodo 2009
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6214083
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6214083
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Summary:Belonectes grasslei sp. nov. (Figs 1 – 7) Material examined. Holotype. male (1.9 mm), ZMH K- 42034, ANDEEP III St. 78 – 9 – E, 22 February 2005, 71°09.52’ – 09.34’S, 14°00.76’ – 13°58.85’ W, 2149 m. Allotype. Preparatory female (2.2 mm), ZMH K- 42035, same locality as holotype. Paratypes. ZMH K-42036, juvenile male (1.4 mm) and juvenile female (1.3 mm), same data as holotype. Etymology. The species is named in honor of the outstanding American marine biologist J. Frederick Grassle who always supported deep-sea research and is one of the founders of the Census of the Marine Life. Description of male, holotype. Body (Fig. 1) length 2.5 width of pereonite 5, body height 0.31 of body length. Head length 0.6 width, length behind antennula insertion 0.7 antennula article 1 length; rostrum length 0.7 head length. Rostrum width between bases of antennulae subequal to length, width 2.6 antennula width. Cephalic keel weakly expressed, clypeus 1.6 as wide and 0.5 as long as labrum. Pereonite 1 almost as wide as head, ... : Published as part of Malyutina, Marina V. & Brandt, Angelika, 2009, Description of three new species of the deep-sea munnopsid genus Belonectes (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) from the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean, pp. 33-52 in Zootaxa 2277 on pages 35-44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191112 ...