Coulmannia rossensis sp. n. (Isopoda, Asellota, Paramunnidae) from the Ross Sea, Southern Ocean

• Published in: ZooKeys
• Main Authors: Choudhury, Madhumita, Doti, Brenda L., Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2011
• Subjects: Article; Humps; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088494; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21594056; https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.82.775

A new species of Coulmannia, Coulmannia rossensis, is described from the Ross Sea, Antarctica. It is most similar to Coulmannia ramosae Castelló, 2004, but can easily be distinguished from this species bythe males yielding a pair of granulate humps on the dorsum of the pereonites 1–6 and a single gr...