Epimeria (Hoplepimeria) larsi d'Acoz & Verheye 2017, subgen. 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 larsi; aurora australis; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857606; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4A5A879BFFD16826FE26FA4ECE7CFB0C

Epimeria ( Hoplepimeria ) larsi subgen. nov. Lörz, 2009 Figs 185–191 Epimeria larsi Lörz, 2009: 61, figs 2– 6. ‘Clade E georgiana-rimicarinata-rubriequies [sic] complex - GE4’ – Verheye et al. 2016a, supplement: 4 (online). Material examined RV Aurora Australis cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: 3 small specs, cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 2173, stn 67AEV326, Adélie Coast, 65°43ʹ07″S, 143°03ʹ37″E, 1957–2154 m, beam trawl, 5 Jan.2008 (MNHN-IU-2014-4343); 1 adult ♀, cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 2173, stn 67AEV326, Adélie Coast, 65°43ʹ07″ S, 143°03ʹ37″ E, 1957–2154 m, beam trawl, 5 Jan. 2008 (RBINS, INV. 132718, removed from MNHN- IU-2014-4344) [extraction M16; Genbank nr, COI: KU870882, 28S: KU759665]; 2 ♀♀, cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 2173, Adélie Coast, stn 67AEV326, 65°43ʹ07″ S, 143°03ʹ37″ E, beam trawl, 1957–2154 m, 5 Jan. 2008 (MNHN-IU-2014-4344). Description ROSTRUM. Well-developed, reaching tip of article 2 of peduncle of antenna 1, anteriorly weakly curved, posteriorly nearly straight (inconspicuously concave), narrow and subacute in lateral view; narrow and with straight converging borders in dorsal view. EYE. Very large, distinctly reniform. PEREION–PLEOSOME TOOTH PATTERN. Pereionites 1–3 smooth; pereionite 4 with trace of posterodorsal bump; pereionite 5 with small and low posterodorsal tooth; pereionite 6 to pleonite 2 with very low mid-dorsal carina posteriorly produced into a tooth pointing backwards and very shallow median notch; pleonite 3 with very low rounded protrusion on median 0.4 followed posteriorly by a straight line and terminated by a medium-sized broad bluntly triangular tooth pointing obliquely upwards; dorsolateral ornamentation absent. COXAE 1–3. Not carinate, apically rounded (coxa 1) and bluntly angular (coxae 2–3). COXA 4. Anterodorsal border straight, anteroventral border straight, these two borders being joined by blunt but distinct squared angle (anterior corner), which is distinctly projecting forward; ventral corner forming an acute (nearly squared) angle (ventral projection ...