Abludomelita Karaman, 1981 (Karaman 1981

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Abludomelita; Chevreux; Lowry; Montagu; Nagata; Pacific; Seta; North Atlantic; ren
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5014602; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5014602

Genus Abludomelita Karaman, 1981 (Karaman, 1981: 39) Abludomelita Karaman, 1981 (Karaman, 1981: 39) —Karaman, 1982: 246.— Notenboom, 1988: 171.— Jarret & Bousfield, 1996: 9. Melita Stebbing, 1906: 421 (part).— Gurjanova, 1951: 750 (part).— Karaman, 1981: 41 (part).—Barnard J.L., 1969: 245 (part).— Barnard & Barnard, 1983: 664 –666 (part). Type species. Melita gladiosa Bate, 1862: 185. Species. Including the new species described here, Abludomelita contains 9 species in the North Western Pacific (Jarret & Bousfield 1996, Lowry 2015, new data): A. breviarticulata (Ren, 2012), A. denticulata (Nagata, 1965), A. huanghaiensis (Ren, 2012), A. japonica (Nagata, 1965), A. klitinii sp. nov., A. okhotensis sp. nov., A. rotundactyla (Ren, 2012), A. somovae (Bulycheva, 1952) and A. unamoena (Hirayama, 1987) (Bulycheva 1952; Hirayama 1987; Labay 2013; Nagata 1965; Ren 2012; Tzvetkova & Kudrjaschov 1985). A. aculeata (Chevreux, 1911), A. amoena (Hansen, 1888), A. gladiosa (Bate, 1862), A. obtusata (Montagu, 1813), A. proxima (Bate, 1862) and A. richardi (Chevreux, 1900) was described only from North Atlantic (Bakir, Sezgin & Katag’an 2009; Bate 1862; Chevreux 1911; Chevreux & Fage 1925; Hansen 1888; Jarret & Bousfield 1996; Karaman 1981; Montagu 1813; Sars 1895; Stephensen 1944b). Species incertae cedis:? A. machaera (K.H. Barnard, 1955) from South Atlantic near Cape Town, Africa. Diagnosis (from Jarret & Bousfield 1996, with additions). Head, anterior lobe rounded, lower margin often with small accessory processes; inferior antennal sinus narrowly notched. Antenna 1 regular, antenna 2 much shorter than antenna 1. Antenna 1, peduncular segment 3 short; accessory flagellum present. Pereon segments without dorsal teeth and denticles. Pleon segments 1–3, postero-dorsal teeth usually present. Urosome 2 with dorso-lateral pairs of teeth, each astride single simple cuspidate seta (Watling type II.A.3) (Watling 1989). Mouthparts regular. Upper lip rounded below. Lower lip regular, inner lobes small, ...