Epimeria (Hoplepimeria) georgiana 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 georgiana; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857616; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4A5A879BFFD6682EFE89FCF2CD31F81C

Epimeria ( Hoplepimeria ) georgiana subgen. nov. Schellenberg, 1931 Figs 152–158 Epimeria georgiana Schellenberg, 1931: 160. Epimeria excisipes K.H. Barnard, 1932: 174, in part but well the types, presumably figs 104e, 107, not fig. 106 (presumably another Epimeria of the complex georgiana ). Epimeria georgiana – Gurjanova 1955: 197. — J.L. Barnard 1961: 103 (key). — McCain 1971: 161. — Watling & Holman 1981: 211, in part, not fig. 19 (= E. quasimodo sp. nov.). — De Broyer & Klages 1991: 165 (key, in part). — Wakabara & Serejo 1999: 642 (key, in part). — Lörz et al. 2011: 1, figs 1 (star), 13 row 5, table 3. Epimeria excisipes – Gurjanova 1955: 198 (in part). — J.L. Barnard 1961: 103 (key, in part). — McCain 1971: 161 (in part). Type material Lectotype Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901–1903: SOUTHERN OCEAN: ♀, from the syntype series, stn 34, South Georgia, in front of mouth of Cumberland Bay, 54°11ʹ S, 36°18ʹ W, grey clay, some stones, 252–310 m, T= +1.45°C, Skottsberg pinx. (SMNH - type 673). Description ROSTRUM. Medium-sized, just overreaching tip of article 1 of peduncle of antenna 1, anteriorly distinctly curved, ventrally straight, subacute in lateral view; broad and with proximally nearly straight converging borders in frontal view. EYE. Fairly large, broadly elliptic. PEREION–PLEOSOME TOOTH PATTERN. Pereionite 1 smooth; pereionites 2–3 with weak posterior bump; pereionites 4 to pleonite 3 with low, non-toothed, very broad carina (not reduced on pereionites 2–3), those of pleonites 1–3 with trace of concavity in anterior 0.4; posterodorsal angle of pleonite 3 very bluntly angular; dorsolateral ornamentation absent. COXAE 1–3. Scarcely carinate and apically tapering and blunt. COXA 4. Anterodorsal border weakly sigmoid, anteroventral border distinctly concave, these two borders being joined by very distinct and not so blunt angle (anterior corner), which is strongly projecting forward; ventral corner forming a sharp acute angle (ventral projection short); lateral carina present, not sharp; ...