Asterocheres suberitis Giesbrecht 1897 ...

• Main Authors: Bandera, Eugenia, Conradi, Mercedes
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Siphonostomatoida; Asterocheridae; Asterocheres; Asterocheres suberitis; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6221576; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6221576

Asterocheres suberitis Giesbrecht, 1897 (Fig. 1) Cyclopicera echinicola (nec Norman, 1868): Giesbrecht 1895: 175. Asterocheres suberitis Giesbrecht 1897: 254; Giesbrecht 1899: 70. Asterocheres echinicola (nec Norman, 1868): T. Scott 1898: 270; T. Scott 1900: 389; Norman & T. Scott 1906: 192. Asterocheres suberitis antarctica T. Scott 1903: 573. Material examined. 7 Ψ and 4 ɗ (ZMUC. CRU-8298) cotypes, ex Suberites domuncula (Olivi), Gulf of Naples, leg. W. Giesbrecht in 1895. Redescription of adult female: Body (see Giesbrecht 1899: fig. 1, Taf. 2) cyclopiform, with oval prosome and cylindrical urosome. Total length 840 µm (n = 1); maximum width 420 µm. Ratio of length to width of prosome 1.1:1. Ratio of length of prosome to urosome 1.6:1. Prosome comprising cephalothorax fully incorporating first pedigerous somite and 3 free pedigerous somites. Pedigerous somite 4 much smaller and narrower than preceding somites. Dorsal cephalothoracic shield and free pedigerous somites ornamented with integumental pores ... : Published as part of Bandera, Eugenia & Conradi, Mercedes, 2009, Redescription of Asterocheres suberitis Giesbrecht, 1897 and A. tenerus (Hansen, 1923) (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), including notes on A. abyssi (Hansen, 1923) and A. intermedius (Hansen, 1923), pp. 41-52 in Zootaxa 1980 on pages 43-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185273 ...