Spectrarcturus murdochi Stransky & Svavarsson & Poore & Kihara 2020, comb. nov.

• Published in: Cold Regions Engineering 2015
• Main Authors: Stransky, Bente, Svavarsson, Jörundur, Poore, Gary C. B., Kihara, Terue Cristina
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Arcturidae; Spectrarcturus; Spectrarcturus murdochi; Barrow; Greenland; Point Barrow; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332831; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/650CEF24FFD7FFB4B3C7BCC1FCABAA34

Spectrarcturus murdochi (Benedict, 1898) comb. nov. (Figs 9–25) Arcturus murdochi Benedict, 1898: 49–50, fig. 9. Pleuroprion murdochi .— Richardson, 1899a: 855.— Richardson, 1900: 230.— Richardson, 1905: 342–344, figs 371–372.— Hansen, 1916: 195–196.— Boone, 1920: 30.— Gurjanova, 1936, 198–200, fig. 127.— Gurjanova, 1952: 176.— Schultz, 1969: 52, fig. 53a.— Kussakin & Mezhov, 1979: 149.— Kussakin, 1982: 424–427, figs 315–316. Spectrarcturus multispinatus Schultz, 1981: 67, fig. 2A–I. Syn. nov. Material examined: Pleuroprion murdochi , holotype , female, 10.5 mm (12 mm according to Richardson 1905) (USNM 7915), Point Barrow Expedition, 31 August 1883, Point Franklin, Alaska. Spectrarcturus multispinatus , holotype , female, 10 mm length (9 mm according to Schultz 1981) (USNM 181264) (holotype extensively fouled with bacteria), Hero 3-290, Little Nellefiske Bank, Greenland, 64°54´N, 53°38´W, 18 August 1968, 79– 85 m. New material: Illustrated or dissected specimens. Female, 7.6 mm (ZMH 43165), WH244 Stn 2002-3 (SW station revisited), 60°00.18´N, 46°31.02´W, 167 m, 1 November 2002, sediment as in stn 2001-3, 4.44°C, salinity 34.03, 749 individuals; male, 4.3 mm (ZMH 43166), WH244 Stn 2002-3, same data as before; female, 6.8 mm (ZMH 43167), WH244 Stn 2002-3, same data as before; preparatory female, 6.0 mm (ZMH 43168), WH 233 Stn 2001-3 (SW station), 59°59.99´N, 46°30.83´W, 161 m, 19 October 2001, sandy bottoms, with few small stones and rich in macroinvertebrates (corals, crinoids, ophiuroids, sponges), 5.88°C, salinity 34.53, 847 individuals; preparatory female, 5.9 mm (ZMH 43169), WH244 Stn 2002-3, same data as before; female, 7.6 mm (ZMH 43170), WH 233 Stn 2001-3, same data as before; female, 7.5 mm (ZMH 43171), WH 233 Stn 2001-3, same data as before; juvenile (manca 2), 2.1 mm (ZMH 43172) WH244 Stn 2002-3, same data as before; juvenile (manca 3), 3.3 mm (ZMH 43173), WH244 Stn 2002-3, same data as before; male, 4.1 mm (ZMH 43174), WH244 Stn 2002-3, same data as before; female, 7.2 mm (ZMH 43175), WH244 Stn ...