Acanthocopinae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsididae) from the Southern Ocean deep sea with the description of Acanthocope eleganta sp. nov.

Acanthocope eleganta sp. nov. is described from the abyssal Southern Ocean near the Southern Ocean Peninsula. The new species differs from others in the following: a slender dorsomedial spine on the pleon anteriorly, a pair of short dorsal spines and long ventral spine on each of pereonites 5 and 6;...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zootaxa
Main Authors: MALYUTINA, MARINA, BRANDT, ANGELIKA
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Mangolia Press 2004
Subjects:
Crustacea
Deep sea
Southern Ocean
taxonomy
Munnopsididae
Acanthocope
new species
Menzies
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Online Access:https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.550.1.1
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Summary:Acanthocope eleganta sp. nov. is described from the abyssal Southern Ocean near the Southern Ocean Peninsula. The new species differs from others in the following: a slender dorsomedial spine on the pleon anteriorly, a pair of short dorsal spines and long ventral spine on each of pereonites 5 and 6; uropods half as long as the terminal spine of the pleotelson and with a minute exopod. A. annulatus Menzies, 1962 is redescribed; A. galatheae Wolff, 1962, previously known only from the Gulf of Panama and from Angola Basin, is recorded from the northwest Weddell Sea.

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