Antennuloniscus armatus Menzies 1962 ...

• Main Author: Brökeland, Wiebke
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Haploniscidae; Antennuloniscus; Antennuloniscus armatus; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6261609; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6261609

Antennuloniscus armatus Menzies, 1962 (Figs 1 B, 8–13) Material Holotype: American Museum of Natural History, New York, AMNH 11997, Ψ, 2.3 mm, V­14­28, western flank of Walvis Ridge, northwest of Meteor Seamount, Atlantic, 45°34’S 6°2’E, 4618 m. Type in good condition, undissected. ANDEEP material: Station 42­2, 59°40.30–40.32’S 57°35.42–42.64’W, 3689 m: 7 subadult ɗ, 2.1–2.5 mm; 15 Ψ, 2.0– 2.3 mm; 6 ovigerous Ψ, 2.3–2.5 mm; ZMH K­ 40725. Station 43­8, 60°27.13–27.19’S 56°05.12–04.81’W, 3962 m: 2 Ψ, 2.1–2.2 mm; 1 ovigerous Ψ, 2.4 mm; ZMH K­ 40726. Diagnosis Body oval, length 2.5 width. Head length 2.3 width, frontal margin slightly concave, medially with acute frontodorsally directed triangular rostrum. Pleotelson in subadult males anterior margin width 2.0 posterior margin, posterolateral processes short, but exceeding terminal margin. Antenna peduncular article 3 with small, blunt dorsal tooth, longitudinal groove distinct, flagellum almost as long as articles 5 and 6, with 8 articles. Long simple setae ... : Published as part of Brökeland, Wiebke, 2006, Three species of the isopod crustacean genus Antennuloniscus Menzies, 1962 (Asellota: Haploniscidae) from the Southern Ocean, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 1115 on pages 13-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171605 ...