Haplomesus longiramus Kavanagh & Sorbe, 2006, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Kavanagh, Fiona A., Sorbe, Jean-Claude
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Ischnomesidae; Haplomesus; Haplomesus longiramus; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6263632; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6263632

Haplomesus longiramus sp. nov. (Figs 2–6) Etymology. Named for the elongate uropods, which are not observed elsewhere in the genus. Material Examined. Holotype (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; MNHN­Is5976); adult male 4.2 mm. ESSAIS I cruise, 21 April 1989, RV ‘ Côte d’Aquitaine ’; Roscoff suprabenthic sled; sample reference: TS06­R­N1. Southern margin of the Cap Ferret canyon, 44°33.40’N – 2°10.70’W to 44°32.90’N – 2°10.40’W, 608– 611 m. Sandy mud bottom (PRECOMAT III cruise, BSM 85 sample, 15 July 1985; median grain size: 18 µm; fine sand: 15.4%; silt and clay: 84.6%; particulate organic carbon:>0.75%). Inferred water temperature, salinity and oxygen concentration at approximately 600 m depth: 10.5°C, 35.57 and 3.9 ml l ­1, respectively (ECOFER III cruise, 15 October 1990; CTD data from the water column of the Cap­Ferret canyon above a 3000 m depth bottom). Paratypes (specimens deposited at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) Female paratype #1, 4.2 mm, MNHN­Is5977, ESSAIS II ... : Published as part of Kavanagh, Fiona A. & Sorbe, Jean-Claude, 2006, Haplomesus longiramus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota), a new ischnomesid species from the Bay of Biscay, North East Atlantic Ocean, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1300 on pages 55-57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.173620 ...