Epimeria (Pseudepimeria) kharieis 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 kharieis; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Coleman; Chevreux
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3857686; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3857686

Epimeria (Pseudepimeria) kharieis sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 1B3DC61B-C54C-4D63-AAC6-29A5BD8807A7 Figs 283–290 Pseudepimeria grandirostris – Klages 1988: 74, 75, unnumbered fig., 78, fig. 16c. Epimeria grandirostris – Coleman 2007: 38, in part, colour plate 2 fig. b only. — Rauschert & Arntz 2015: 61, 125, pl. 54 (adult and juvenile). non Pseudepimeria grandirostris Chevreux, 1912: 216. Etymology Derived from the Greek adjective χαρίϵις, meaning graceful and beautiful, and Latinized herein as kharieis, - is, - e. Type material Holotype RV Polarstern cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: adult ♀, cruise PS48, ANT-XV/3, EASIZ II, stn 77 (AGT 7), eastern Weddell Sea, 71°08.6ʹ S, 12°26.6ʹ W to 71°10.2ʹ S, 12°30.7ʹ W, 330–433 m, Agassiz trawl, 2 Feb. 1998, coll. C. De Broyer and Y. Scailteur (RBINS, INV. 132937). Paratypes RV Polarstern cruises: SOUTHERN OCEAN: 1 fairly large spec., cruise PS14, ANT-VII/4, EPOS leg 3, stn 281, eastern Weddell Sea, 71°39.0ʹ S, 12°21.1ʹ W to 71°36.9ʹ S, 12°25.0ʹ W, 389–450 m, Agassiz trawl, 17 Jan. 1989, coll. C. De Broyer (RBINS, INV. 132939); 1 spec., cruise PS48, ANT-XV/3, EASIZ II, stn 77 (AGT7), eastern Weddell Sea, 71°08.6ʹ S, 12°26.6ʹ W to 71°10.2ʹ S, 12°30.7ʹ W, 330–433 m, Agassiz trawl, 2 Feb. 1998, coll. C. De Broyer and Y. Scailteur (RBINS, INV. 132938); 1 immature spec., cruise PS65, ANT-XXI/2, BENDEX, stn 144-1, eastern Weddell Sea, 70°57.02ʹ S, 10°48.43ʹ W to 70°56.98ʹ S, 10°48.04ʹ W, 401–407 m, 13 Dec. 2003, coll. C. De Broyer (RBINS, INV. 132988). Description Description based on adult females. ROSTRUM. Long, overreaching tip of peduncle of antenna 1; in lateral view, straight on proximal half, regularly curved on second half, forming a very obtuse angle with head, ventrally straight, tip not abruptly curving downwards; in frontal view, fairly broad, with weakly convex borders, with acute tip. EYE. Medium-sized, conical. PEREION–PLEOSOME TOOTH PATTERN. Pereionite 1 with low, broad, rounded mid-dorsal tooth pointing upwards of which the anterior border is distinctly ...