Epimeria (Laevepimeria) anodon d'Acoz & Verheye 2017, subgen. et sp. nov.

• Main Authors: d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem, Verheye, Marie L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Epimeriidae; Epimeria; Epimeria anodon; aurora australis; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857538; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4A5A879BFFED6813FE16FEE3CE4CF862

Epimeria ( Laevepimeria ) anodon subgen. et sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 4328C52C-34BA-4DDF-A984-7BDE24BADE7F Figs 229–234 ‘ Clade C walkeri complex - WA4’ – Verheye et al. 2016a, supplement: 3 (online). Etymology Combination of the prefix an-, which means ‘lack of’ and of the Greek noun, όδούς, which means ‘teeth’. The name, which is an apposition, alludes to the absence of tooth in the species. Type material Holotype RV Aurora Australis cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: ♀, cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 2724, stn 71EV447, Adélie Coast, 66°24ʹ00″ S, 140°32ʹ21″ E, 683–791 m, beam trawl, 14 Jan. 2008, coll. IPEV-AAD-MNHN (MNHN- IU-2014-4336) [extraction M13; Genbank nr, COI: KU870880, 28S: KU759664]. Paratypes RV Aurora Australis cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: 1 spec., cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 1317, stn 51AEV215, Adélie Coast, 66°44ʹ52″ S, 145°26ʹ40″ E, 525–553 m, beam trawl, 30 Dec. 2007, coll. IPEV-AAD-MNHN (MNHN-IU-2014-4275); 1 adult spec., cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 1384, stn 50AEV220, Adélie Coast, 66°45ʹ09″ S 145°20ʹ04″ E, 567–604 m, beam trawl, 30 Dec. 2007, coll. IPEV-AAD- MNHN (MNHN-IU-2014-4331) [extraction M12; Genbank nr, COI: KU870879, 28S: KU759663]; 1 ♀, cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 2724, stn 71EV447, Adélie Coast, 66°24ʹ00″ S, 140°32ʹ21″ E, 683–791 m, beam trawl, 14 Jan. 2008, coll. IPEV-AAD-MNHN (MNHN-IU-2014-7335) [removed from MNHN-IU-2014-4336]. Description HEAD + ROSTRUM. Normally curved in lateral view. ROSTRUM. In lateral view short and very broad, reaching mid of article 1 of peduncle of antenna 1, anteriorly distinctly curved, ventrally weakly convex, tip subacute; in frontal view very broad and with nearly straight converging borders, tip blunt. EYES. Medium-sized, elliptic, laterally oriented (interocular distance about 3 × as wide as eye size when seen in frontal view). PEREION–PLEOSOME TOOTH PATTERN. Pereionites 1–7 totally smooth; pleonites 1–2 with trace of mid-dorsal keel and with trace of posterior bump; pleonite 3 with trace of mid-dorsal carina and with posterior bump. COXAE ...