Bathypsammis polaris Willen & Schulz, 2007, sp. n. ...

• Main Authors: Willen, Elke, Schulz, Maximilian
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Harpacticoida; Pseudotachidiidae; Bathypsammis; Bathypsammis polaris; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6250422; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6250422

Bathypsammis polaris sp. n. (Figures 1–9) Description Female (holotype). Body length: 1221 µm, furcal rami length: 318 µm. Rostrum (figure 1 A) demarcated from cephalothorax, slightly broader than long, rounded, with 1 pair of sensilla apically and 1 subapically. Body (figures 1A–B, 7B). Long and slender, no distinct separation between prosome and urosome. Cephalothorax square, cephalic shield with sensilla and pores, distal lateral edge with tuft of long spinules. Posterior margin of each body somite (excluding penultimate somite) with sensilla. Urosomal somites with ventrolateral spinule rows on distal margins and the 2 somites preceding the anal one (figure 1A) dorsally with spinule rows on distal margins; body dorsally otherwise without spinule ornamentation, hyaline frills smooth; genital double-somite (free somites 5 and 6) ventrally not completely fused, genital field as in figures 1B, 7B; P6 with 3 setae, innermost longest and middle one short. Anal somite completely divided with 2 dorsal sensilla, ... : Published as part of Willen, Elke & Schulz, Maximilian, 2007, Rediscovery of Bathypsammis Huys & Gee, 1993 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Pseudotachidiidae) with description of a new species from the Antarctic deep sea, pp. 53-68 in Zootaxa 1555 on pages 54-56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178217 ...