Epimeria (Hoplepimeria) d'Acoz & Verheye 2017

• 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; South Orkney Islands; South Sandwich Islands; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857678; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4A5A879BFFEE6816FDE8FB08CD55FE31

Epimeria ( Hoplepimeria ) sp. subgen. nov. ‘ Epimeria robustoides 1’ – Rauschert & Arntz, 2015: 62, pl. 55. non Epimeria robustoides Lörz & Coleman in Lörz et al. , 2009: 10. Character states and colour pattern Similar to Epimeria gargantua but with a different colour pattern. Background colour of the body: white; all pereionites with two pairs of small red spots disposed transversally; pereionite 1 + coxa 1, pereionite 4 + coxa 4, pereionite 7 + coxa 7 with broad orange red stripe; urosomite 1 and basis of pereiopod 7 orange red; basis of pereiopods 5–6 white; antennae and pereiopods (except basis of pereiopods 5–7) pink; mouthparts purple; eyes red. Distribution PS61, ANT-XIX/5, LAMPOS, stn 229-1, Bruce Ridge [a geomorphologic elevation situated midway between the South Orkney Islands and the southern tip of the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands], 60°08.77ʹ S, 34°54.83ʹ W to 60°07.81ʹ S, 34°56.17ʹ W, 362– 371 m. Remarks Rauschert & Arntz (2015) do not indicate the coordinates of their ‘ Epimeria robustoides 1’, but this information is given in an early draft of the book made available to the authors: ANT-XIX/5, LAMPOS, stn 229-1, Bruce Ridge. It is not known where the specimen is stored; in November 2015, it was not deposited at the Berlin Museum (Coleman pers. com.).As its colour pattern, with large red patches, is very different from the purely white E. gargantua sp. nov. found more southernly, this specimen possibly belongs to a distinct species. It should be noted that the colour pattern of all E. gargantua sp. nov. collected during the cruises ANT-XXIII/8 and ANT-XXIX/3 (20 specimens) was examined on board and exhibited no variation. 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 page 105, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2017.359, http://zenodo.org/record/3855694