Metopa ...

• Main Authors: Tandberg, Anne Helene S., Vader, Wim
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Stenothoidae; Metopa; Antarctic; Spence; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6216419; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6216419

Metopa - through time When Krøyer (1842) originally described Leucothoe clypeata and L. glacialis, he placed them in the genus Leucothoe, emending its genus diagnosis. Goës (1866) and Spence Bate (1862) moved both species to Montagua. But Boeck (1872) placed Montagua in synonymy with Stenothoe, both genera lacking a mandible palp, and erected the new genus Metopa, with M. clypeata as type species, for species with a short 3-articulate mandible palp (3rd article very short) and a 1-articulate palp on Maxilla 1, in his words: "Mandibulae palpo brevi, 3articulato; articulo 3tio fere obsoleto. Maxillae 1mi paris palpo 1articulato. Reliqva cum genere Stenothoe ferme conveniunt". In the following years, many further Metopa species were described, usually without further examination of the mouthparts (see e.g. Sars 1892). About 50 years after the erection of Metopa, Schellenberg created the monotypic genus Prometopa for the antarctic P. tuberculata (Schellenberg, 1926). This separation has been discussed (Just, ... : Published as part of Tandberg, Anne Helene S. & Vader, Wim, 2009, A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 1. Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (ZMUC), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 2093 on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187535 ...