Epimeria (Hoplepimeria) rimicarinata d'Acoz & Verheye 2017, subgen. nov.

• Main Authors: d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem, Verheye, Marie L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Epimeriidae; Epimeria; Epimeria rimicarinata; Southern Ocean; Ross Sea; Prydz Bay; Coleman; Stripe
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3857620; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857620

Epimeria (Hoplepimeria) rimicarinata subgen. nov. Watling & Holman, 1980 Fig. 208 Epimeria rimicarinata Watling & Holman, 1980: 642, figs 22–23. Epimeria rimicarinata – De Broyer & Klages 1991: 165 (key). — Wakabara & Serejo 1999: 642 (key). — Coleman 2007: 51, fig. 27a–c, colour plate 2e, map 13 (circle). — Lörz & Coleman 2009: unnumbered photograph on p. 17. ‘Clade E georgiana-rimicarinata-rubriequies [sic] complex - RI’ – Verheye et al. 2016a, supplement: 4 (online). Material examined RV Marion Dufresne cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: 1 spec., specimen used for illustrations, cruise MD42 (SIBEX), stn 22-CP66, Prydz Bay, 66°55ʹ45″ S, 74°04ʹ11″ E, depth not given [Google Earth depth for that position: 427 m (accessed 27 Sep. 2016)], 26 Jan. 1985 (MNHN-IU-2014-4265) [extraction M24; Genbank nr, COI: KU870887]; 1 spec., previously identified as Epimeria grandirostris, cruise MD42 (SIBEX), stn 22- CP73, Prydz Bay, 66°57ʹ25″ S, 72°41ʹ24″ E, depth not given [Google Earth depth for that position: 540 m (accessed 27 Sep. 2016)], 26 Jan. 1985 (MNHN-IU-2014-4256). Diagnosis Morphology unique in the genus Epimeria. Pereionite 2 with small but broad posterodorsal tooth; pereionite 3 to pleonite 3 laterally sculptured, with tridimentionally sculptured and medially notched mid-dorsal tooth. Posteroventral border of coxa 4 very concave, surface just in front of this border forming a very deep groove. Colour pattern Red with on each side a broad white longitudinal stripe running along the upper part of the coxae (Coleman 2007: plate 2 fig. e) or blood red with white patches (Lörz & Coleman 2009: unnumbered photograph p. 17). Distribution Western Ross Sea, 337–474 m (Watling & Holman 1980); Prydz Bay, 427–540 m (present material). Published as part of d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem & Verheye, Marie L., 2017, Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea), pp. 1-553 in European Journal of Taxonomy 359 on pages 96-97, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2017.359, ...