Epimeria (Subepimeria) iota 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 iota; Southern Ocean; Bransfield Strait; Elephant Island; Dundee; Dundee Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3857652; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857652

Epimeria (Subepimeria) iota sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 7A557F8F-058F-413B-998C-AED9C9D23EE6 Figs 299–306 Epimeria puncticulata – Watling & Holman 1981: 213, in part, fig. 21. Epimeria aff. puncticulata –? Rauschert & Arntz 2015: 61, pl. 54, unnumbered photograph. ‘ Clade B puncticulata complex - PUN1’ – Verheye et al. 2016a, supplement: 3 (online). non Epimeria puncticulata K.H. Barnard, 1930: 377, fig. 42. Etymology Iota is the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet. The name, which is a noun in apposition, alludes to the small size of the species. Type material Holotype RV Polarstern cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: sex undetermined, cruise PS81, ANT-XXIX/3, stn 197-6, Bransfield Strait, 62°45.05ʹ S, 57°26.68ʹ W to 62°45.09ʹ S, 57°26.47ʹ W, 210–222 m, black gravel mixed with sand and a little bit of mud, Rauschert dredge, 25 Feb. 2013, coll. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz and M. Verheye (RBINS, INV. 122947) [extraction ANT48; Genbank nr, 28S: KU759607]. Paratypes RV Polarstern cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: 1 spec., cruise PS69, ANT-XXIII/8, stn 605-3, Elephant Island, 61°20.33ʹ S, 55°31.53ʹ W to 61°20.35ʹ S, 55°30.18ʹ W, 148–154 m, Agassiz trawl, 20 Dec. 2006, coll. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz and H. Robert (RBINS, INV. 122519); 2 specs, cruise PS69, ANT-XXIII/8, stn 614-3/4/5, Elephant Island, 60°52.37ʹ S, 55°29.80ʹ W to 60°52.71ʹ S, 55°27.83ʹ W, 248–265 m, a lot of epifauna, Rauschert dredge and Agassiz trawl, 22 Dec. 2006, coll. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz and H. Robert (RBINS, INV. 122525); 1 spec., sex undetermined, cruise PS81, ANT-XXIX/3, stn 164-5, south of Dundee Island, 63°36.84ʹ S, 56°10.28ʹ W to 63°36.72ʹ S, 56°10.46ʹ W, 121–122 m, Rauschert dredge, 11 Feb. 2013, coll. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz and M. Verheye (RBINS, INV. 122934) [extraction K42; Genbank nr, 28S: KU759655]. Description Basis of description. Description based on holotype. ROSTRUM. In lateral view fairly short and fairly narrow; distinctly curved, posterior border straight, tip acute; in frontal view narrowly triangular, fairly narrow and with almost straight ...