Epimeria (Subepimeria) adeliae d'Acoz & Verheye 2017, sp. 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 adeliae; Southern Ocean; Jules; Adélie Coast; Dumont d’Urville; Pépin; aurora australis
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3857638; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857638

Epimeria (Subepimeria) adeliae sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 76F9695C-487B-434F-B09C-52CA334ACD5B Figs 294–298 ‘ Clade B puncticulata complex - PUN4’ – Verheye et al. 2016a, supplement: 3 (online). Etymology The noun Adelia, -ae is a Latinization of Adèle (referring to Adèle Pépin, the wife of Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville), and alludes to Adélie Coast (discovered by J.S.C. Dumont d’Urville), where the type material of the species was collected. The name is a genitive. Type material Holotype RV Aurora Australis cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: ♀, cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 2072, stn 65EV322, Adélie Coast, 65°48ʹ09″ S, 143°03ʹ46″ E, 750–788 m, beam trawl, 5 Jan. 2008, coll. IPEV-AAD-MNHN (MNHN- IU-2014-4288) [extraction M4; Genbank nr, COI: KU870888, 28S: KU759671]. Paratypes RV Aurora Australis cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: 1 spec., cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 2072, stn 65EV322, Adélie Coast, 65°48ʹ09″ S, 143°03ʹ46″ E, 750–788 m, beam trawl, 5 Jan. 2008, coll. IPEV-AAD-MNHN (MNHN-IU-2014-7339, removed from MNHN-IU-2014-4288); 1 spec., cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 2072, stn 65EV322, Adélie Coast, 65°48ʹ09″ S, 143°03ʹ46″ E, 750–788 m, beam trawl, 5 Jan. 2008, coll. IPEV-AAD-MNHN (MNHN-IU-2014-7340, removed from MNHN-IU-2014-4288) [extraction M3; Genbank nr, 28S: KU759670]. Description ROSTRUM. In lateral view short and narrow, nearly reaching tip of article 1 of peduncle of antenna 1, distinctly curved on the proximal half of its anterior border, posterior border straight, tip acute; in frontal view triangular: fairly broad and with straight converging borders, with tip blunt. EYES. Large, broadly elliptic. PEREION–PLEOSOME TOOTH PATTERN. Pereionites 1–6 totally smooth; pereionite 7 keeled with small blunt posterodorsal tooth; pleonites 1–2 keeled with well developed acute posterodorsal tooth; pleonite 3 keeled with posterodorsal tip forming a distinct squared angle. COXAE 1–3. Tip blunt but narrow. COXA 4. Of medium width; anterodorsal border proximally nearly straight, curving ventrally and followed by ...