Epimeria (Pseudepimeria) amoenitas d'Acoz & Verheye 2017, sp. 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 amoenitas; aurora australis; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857670; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4A5A879BFFFF6804FDFFFEE3CB6CFCC4

Epimeria ( Pseudepimeria ) amoenitas sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 191AE45C-F84D-412A-B0E1-CFA3251C5824 Figs 251–256 ‘Clade H grandirostris-pulchra-oxicarinata complex - PUL1’ – Verheye et al. 2016a, supplement: 5 (online). Etymology From the Latin, a moenitas , -tatis : pleasantness, delightfulness, loveliness. This name, which is a noun in apposition, has been coined because the species is as elegant as its close relative Epimeria pulchra , of which the specific epithet means beautiful. Type material Holotype RV Aurora Australis cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: ♀ with hatchlings, cruise CEAMARC, sample CEAMARC 3978, stn 36EV297, Adélie Coast, 66°20ʹ19.806″ S, 143°41ʹ07.782″ E, 552–573 m, beam trawl, 4 Jan. 2008, coll. IPEV- AAD-MNHN (MNHN-IU-2014-4327). Paratype RV Aurora Australis cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: 1 spec., cruise CEAMARC, sample ‘CEAMARC V3 stn 158’, stn 28EV53, Adélie Coast, 65°59ʹ46.95″ S, 143°02ʹ57.0948″ E, 461–483 m, beam trawl, 23 Dec. 2007, coll. IPEV- AAD-MNHN (MNHN-IU-2014-4284) [extraction M14; Genbank nr, COI: KU870881]. Description ROSTRUM. Long, overreaching tip of peduncle of antenna 1; in lateral view, anteriorly weakly curved in its middle and forming a blunt very obtuse angle with head, ventrally straight, tip not abruptly curving downwards; in frontal view, fairly narrow, with weakly convex borders, with subacute tip. EYE. Medium-sized, conical. PEREION–PLEOSOME TOOTH PATTERN. Pereionite 1 with medium-sized fairly broad and blunt-tipped middorsal tooth pointing upwards, of which the anterior border is straight and the posterior border is strongly convex, with pair of well-developed, blunt, dorsolateral teeth and pair of small ventrolateral teeth; pereionite 2 much narrower than pereionites 1 and 3, with small narrow blunt-tipped tooth pointing upwards (a bit shorter than mid-dorsal tooth of pereionite 1 and much shorter than mid-dorsal tooth of pereionite 3), with pair of small very blunt dorsolateral teeth, and pair of small ventrolateral teeth; pereionite 3 with large, broad and blunt ...