Metopa clypeata Kroyer 1842 ...

• Main Authors: Tandberg, Anne Helene S., Vader, Wim
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Stenothoidae; Metopa; Metopa clypeata; Bering Sea; Greenland; Seta
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6216423; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6216423

Metopa clypeata (Krøyer, 1842) Fig. 1–9, 19–21. Leucothoe clypeata Krøyer, 1842:157; Krøyer 1845:545, pl. 6 fig. 2a–f Leucothoe norvegica Liljeborg, 1850 Montagua clypeata Bate, 1862:58; Goës, 1866:522 Metopa clypeata Boeck, 1870:60, Boeck, 1872:451, pl. XVIII-4, XIX-3, Hansen, 1888:90, fig III-3, Shoemaker, 1955:15, fig. 5 a–f, Just, 1980:46 ? Metopa beringiensis Oldevig, 1959:45 –46, pl.1 fig. 7–8 non Metopa clypeata Gurjanova, 1951:417 Material examined. Morphological examination: ZMUC-CRU 6050 (Greenland), male, 6.4 mm; ZMUC- CRU 6050, female, 8.9 mm TYPE material; USNMNH 419533, male, 7 mm (Albatross station 3282, Bering Sea); Zool. Mus. AN No 22646 (114-1950); SEM-examination: ZMUC-CRU 6050, male, 6 mm. Morphological redescription of male type material. Head (Fig. 1): epistome small and rounded, cephalic lobe not prominent, with acute tip; eye 1/3 of head length, well defined. Antenna 1 (Fig. 1): long and slender, half length of body; flagellum of approximately 20 articles, one small seta on each ... : 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 3-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187535 ...