Sabatieria multipora Fu & Zhang & Leduc & Mou & Lin 2023, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Fu, Sujing, Zhang, Shuyi, Leduc, Daniel, Mou, Jianfeng, Lin, Heshan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Araeolaimida; Comesomatidae; Sabatieria; Sabatieria multipora; Prydz Bay; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10421737

Sabatieria multipora sp. nov. (Figures 6 – 9, Table 2) Type material. Holotype male in inventory slide no. MBSMCOIA-M10D-2-2-5-1. Paratypes: four males in inventory slide no. MBSMCOIA-M10D-1-2-5-1, MBSMCOIA-M10D-1-5-10-1, and MBSMCOIA-M10D-1-5-10-2; two females in inventory slide no. MBSMCOIA- M10D-1-2-5-1, and MBSMCOIA-M10D-3-2-5-4. Type locality and habitat. Holotype collected in the Prydz Bay, 68.2833°S, 75.5827°E; depth 578 m; 31 December 2020; total organic carbon 1.37%; sand, 7.87%; clay, 16.77%; silt 75.37%; mean particle diameter 6.2 μm. Paratypes, same collecting data as for holotype. Etymology. The species epithet is named after the coarse, irregularly-spaced punctations that seem as numerous pores distributted over most part of body cuticle, visible with scanning electron microscopy. Published as part of Fu, Sujing, Zhang, Shuyi, Leduc, Daniel, Mou, Jianfeng & Lin, Heshan, 2023, Two new species of Sabatieria de Rouville, 1903 (Nematoda: Araeolaimida: Comesomatidae) from the Southern Ocean, pp. 563-581 in Zootaxa 5389 (5) on page 572, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5389.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10421723