Austronanus dubius Hale 1937, comb. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Just, Jean, Wilson, George D. F.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Paramunnidae; Austronanus; Austronanus dubius; Adelie Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6254988; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6254988

Austronanus dubius (Hale, 1937), comb. nov. (Fig. 9) Paramunna dubia Hale, 1937: 40, fig. 16. Austrosignum dubia.— Menzies, 1962: 44. Remarks on type material. The anterior part of the body is somewhat flattened artificially, making it broader than the posterior pereonites. Material examined Holotype. Ψ, 1.80 mm, Main Base, Commonwealth Bay, Adelie Land, Antarctica, 67°S 142°36'E, 25–30 fms [46–55 m], 3 September 1912, Hunter, SAMA C4346. Description. Body width 0.47 length in female, widest at pereonite 2 or 3. Head length 0.63 width; length posterior to eyestalks 0.75 anterior length. Frontal margin lobe length 0.78 head length; apex bluntly angular in dorsal view, frontal margin adjacent to apex convex, not sinuous. Eyestalks lateral apex rounded, globular, shaft before apex slightly constricted with neck, long axis angling forward at approximately 40°, about as long as wide in dorsal view. Pereonite lateral margin 1–4 linear, 5–7 rounded. Pereonite 5 in dorsal view distinctly narrower than pereonites 4 ... : Published as part of Just, Jean & Wilson, George D. F., 2006, Revision of Southern Hemisphere Austronanus Hodgson, 1910, with two new genera and five new species of Paramunnidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota), pp. 21-58 in Zootaxa 1111 on pages 39-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171530 ...