Holophryxus giardi Richardson 1908 ...

• Main Authors: Huys, Rony, Savchenko, Alexandra S., Kosobokova, Ksenia N.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Dajidae; Holophryxus; Holophryxus giardi; Arctic; Pacific
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8004915; https://zenodo.org/record/8004915

HOLOPHRYXUS GIARDI RICHARDSON, 1908 Original description: Richardson (1908): 690–693, figs 1–3 (adult and immature ♀♀). Host: Boreogennema borealis (Dendrobranchiata, Benthesicymidae). Distribution: North Pacific Ocean (Table 2). Differential diagnosis: Holophryxus . Body length 8 mm (immature ♀), 39 mm (adult ♀; N = 1) (Richardson, 1908). Colour uniformly light yellow in ♀; unconfirmed in ♂. FEMALE: Body spindle shaped, about 2.2 times as long as maximum width. Cephalon demarcated from pereon by lateral constrictions in dorsal aspect and by shallow dorsal fold in lateral aspect; dorsal prominence with emarginate (bilobed) anterior margin; with broad hood-like extension with virtually straight anterior margin and rounded frontolateral corners; ventral cephalic ridge not discernible in dorsal aspect, relatively small and slightly arched, about 0.3 times as long as wide, anterior margin slightly rounded, presence of pit organs unconfirmed; ... : Published as part of Huys, Rony, Savchenko, Alexandra S. & Kosobokova, Ksenia N., 2023, Discovery of a new species and host record of Holophryxus Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Dajidae) from the central Arctic: a model of enhanced descriptive standards for epicaridean isopods, pp. 592-649 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 (2) on page 632, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac105, http://zenodo.org/record/8011009 ...