Notoixys heardensis Kim & Boxshall 2020, gen. et sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Kim, Il-Hoi, Boxshall, Geoff A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Ascidiacea; Enterogona; Didemnidae; Notoixys; Notoixys heardensis; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Heard Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Copepods
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6422127; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6422127

Notoixys heardensis gen. et sp. nov. (Figs. 340, 341) Typematerial. Holotype (intact ♀, MNHN-IU-2014- 21387), paratypes (3 intact ♀♀, MNHN-IU-2014-21388), and dissected paratypes (2 ♀♀, figured) from branchial chamber of Aplidiumacropodium Monniot F. & Gaill, 1978 (MNHN-IT-2008-155 = MNHNA 1/ APL.B/111), Heard Island, Antarctic Ocean, ”Marion Dufresne”, 52°59.4’S, 73°38’E, depth 90 m, 08 April 1974, MNHN coll. Etymology. The new species is named after the type locality, Heard Island in the Antarctic. Descriptionoffemale. Body (Fig. 340A) swollen, 1.80 mmlong. Prosome 1.72 mmlong; dorsalcephalic shield expanded ventrolaterally, well-defined from metasome, bearing paired, tapering horn-like processes (Fig. 340D) posterolaterally. Metasome globular, unsegmented, with thin exoskeleton; fifth pedigerous somite completely fused with fourth. Freeurosome (Fig. 340B) stout, tapering, 5-segmented. Anal somite and caudal rami setulose. Caudal ramus (Fig. 340C) about 1.7 times longerthan wide (74×44 μm), withrounded ... : 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 512-515, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.4.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4591138 ...