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

• Main Authors: Malyutina, Marina V., Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Munnopsidae; Belonectes; Belonectes stoddarti; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; SCAR
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6214085; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6214085

Belonectes stoddarti sp. nov. (Figs 8–10) Material examined. Holotype. male (2.0 mm), ZMH K- 42037, ANDEEP III St. 80–9–E, 23 February 2005, 70°38.45’ – 39.18’S, 14°42.86’ – 43.43’W, 3100 m. Paratypes. ZMH K- 42038, juvenile specimen (1.2 mm), same data as holotype. Etymology. The species is named after marine biologist Michael Stoddart from Tasmania who has established and implemented the Census of the Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) within SCAR (Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research). Description. Body (Fig. 8) with fingerprint pattern on strong cuticle. Body length 2.4 width, height 0.35 length. Head length 0.4 width, length behind antennula insertion 0.2 antennula article 1 length; rostrum length 0.9 head length. Rostrum terminal width 0.7 basal width, rostrum basal width 2 times basal width of antennula. Cephalic keel expressed, clypeus 1.6 as wide and 0.5 as long as labrum. Pereonite 1 shortest laterally, longest medially, slightly broader than head, length 3.3 head length behind antennular ... : 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 44-48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191112 ...