Paraleptognathia benguela Guerrero-Kommritz 2004, n. sp.

• Main Author: Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Akanthophoreidae; Paraleptognathia; Paraleptognathia benguela; Seta; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5247927; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5247927

Paraleptognathia benguela n. sp. (Figs 22, 23) Material examined: 18 individuals. Holotype ZMH K­40618 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 340, two females. Paratypes ZMB 27520, RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 346, three females, ZMUC CRU 3961 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 325, two females, ZMH K­40619 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 340, two females, ZMH K­40620 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 345, one female, ZMH K­40621 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 344, three females, ZMH K­40622 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 340, one juvenile male, ZMH K­40623 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 348, one female, ZMH K­40624 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 325, one female, ZMH K­40625 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 338, one female, ZMH K­ 40626 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 348, one female, ZMH K­40627 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 345, one female. Diagnosis: Carpal shield well developed. Pereopod 1, 2, 3 with spinules on merus, carpus and propodus. Description: non­ovigerous female. Body (Fig. 22a, b): long, about 7.3 times longer than broad. Body length 1.5 to 4.0 mm. Cephalothorax (Fig. 22a, b): about 1.3 times longer than broad. Pereon (Fig. 22a, b): pereonite 1 as long as pereonite 6; pereonite 5 as long as pereonite 2 and longer than 6, pereonite 4 longer than 2 and shorter than 3; pereonite 3 longest. Pleon (Fig. 22a, b): pleonites of equal length, pleotelson with pointed apex. Antennule (Fig. 22c): article 1 longest, with one long and three short setae; article 2 with one long simple and two short simple setae; article 3 shortest, with two terminal simple setae; article 4 with five terminal setae. Antenna (Fig. 22d): article 1 short, semifused to cephalothorax; article 2 as long as wide, with one short spiniform seta dorsally; article 3 with one simple distal seta; article 4 longest, with two distal simple long, two distal short and one short simple setae at midlength; article 5 with one simple long distal seta; article 6 shortest, with five terminal simple setae. Labrum (Fig. 23d): hood­shaped, with row of setules on lateral margins. Mandible (Fig. 23c): well calcified; pars molaris bent ventrally; lacinia mobilis spiniform and blunt. Maxillula (Fig. 23a): endite ...