Austronanus gelidus Just & Wilson, 2006, sp. 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 gelidus; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6254990; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6254990

Austronanus gelidus sp. nov. (Fig. 10) Etymology. The species name is Latin for icy, referring to the Antarctic habitat of this species. Material examined Holotype. Ψ, 1.31 mm, Antarctica, Davis Station, 68°38'S 77°48'E, M. Tucker, 6 January 1982, NMV J4773. Description. Body width 0.46 length in female, widest at pereonite 2 or 3. Head length 0.73 width; length posterior to eyestalks 1.0 anterior length. Frontal margin lobe length 0.37 head length; apex bluntly angular in dorsal view, margin adjacent to apex convex, not sinuous. Eyestalks lateral apex somewhat flattened, long axis angling forward at approximately 45°. Pereonite lateral margin 1–4 linear, 5–7 rounded. Pereonite 5 in dorsal view distinctly narrower than pereonites 4 and 6. Pereonite lateral margin 7 finely denticulate. Pleon length 1.0 width in female; pleotelson proximal margin length shorter than lateral margin length. Pleonite 1 width 1.0 distance between uropods, length 0.2 width. Pleotelson laterally angular anteriorly, lateral margins ... : 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 41-43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171530 ...