Doropygus antarcticus Kim & Boxshall 2020, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Kim, Il-Hoi, Boxshall, Geoff A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Cyclopoida; Notodelphyidae; Doropygus; Doropygus antarcticus; Antarctic; Terre Adélie; Terre-Adélie; Antarc*; antarcticus; aurora australis; Copepods
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6421635; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6421635

Doropygusantarcticus sp. nov. (Figs. 226, 227) Type material. Holotype ♀ (dissected and mounted on a slide, MNHN-IU-2014-21315) from Cnemidocarpa pfefferi Michaelsen, 1898, Antarctic (66°11 Ś, 143°21 É), CEAMARC 62EV303 (Beam Trawl AAD), Terre Adélie, “Aurora Australis” (66°11’S, 143°21’E), depth 532-550 m, IPEV-AAD-MNHN coll., 04 January 2008. Additionalmaterial. 1 copepodid V ♀ (dissected) from Cnemidocarpa drygalskii (Hartmeyer, 1911), Antarctic Stn 65EV322 (65°48 Ś, 143°04 É), depth 750- 788 m, 05 January 2008. Etymology. This species is named after the geographic region where the type locality is located. Descriptionoffemale. Body (Fig. 226A) narrow, 4.85 mmlong: prosome 3.92 mmlong, indistinctly segmented. Dorsal cephalic shield distinct; second and third pedigerous somites each with weakly developed epimera. Fourth pedigerous somite forming elongated, oval brood pouch (about 1.5 times longerthan wide in lateral view). Freeurosome (Fig. 226B) slender, inserted anteriorly on brood pouch. Genital somite ... : Published as part of Kim, Il-Hoi & Boxshall, Geoff A., 2020, Untold diversity: the astonishing species richness of the Notodelphyidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), a family of symbiotic copepods associated with ascidians (Tunicata), pp. 1-6 in Megataxa 4 (1) on pages 339-344, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.4.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4591138 ...