Acanthocope eleganta Malyutina & Brandt, 2004, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Malyutina, Marina, Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Munnopsidae; Acanthocope; Acanthocope eleganta; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Elephant Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6272064; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6272064

Acanthocope eleganta sp. nov. (Figs 2–5) Material examined: holotype, Ψ manca, stage 3 (5.9 mm), ANDEEP stn. 131–9, 65°18.55’S, 51°31.95’W, 2893–2894 m, northwest Weddell Sea, 6 March 2002, RV Polarstern (ZMH K–40716). Paratypes: 2 Ψ manca, stage 1 (2.9 and 2.7 mm), ANDEEP stn. 114—S, 61°43.54– 51’S, 60°44.21–43’W, 4482 m, northwest off Elephant Island, 17 February 2002, RV Polarstern (ZMH K–40717); Ψ manca, stage 1 (2.5 mm), anterior part of manca, ANDEEP stn. 42–S, 59°40.30–32'S, 57°35.42–64’W, 3689 m, 27 January 2002, RV Polarstern (ZMH K–40718). Diagnosis: Coxal spine of pereopods 2–4 with broad base, slender, about as long as half width of pereonite; natasome about 4 times as long as anterior part of body; at least pereonites 5 and 6 with a pair of short anterodorsal spines and a long ventromedial spine each, anterolateral spines of pereonites 5 and 6 as long as and about twice as wide as coxal spines of pereopods 2–4 and twice as long as pereonites laterally; posterolateral spines of pleotelson ... : Published as part of Malyutina, Marina & Brandt, Angelika, 2004, Acanthocopinae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsididae) from the Southern Ocean deep sea with the description of Acanthocope eleganta sp. nov., pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 550 on pages 4-11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157199 ...