Shackletonia robusta K. H. Barnard 1931

• Main Authors: Stoddart, H. E., Lowry, J. K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Fungi; Ascomycota; Lecanoromycetes; Teloschistales; Teloschistaceae; Shackletonia; Shackletonia robusta; Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Territory; Bruce Rise; Larsemann Hills; Lowry; Prydz Bay; Shackleton; Shackleton Ice Shelf; Southern Ocean; Thurston; Antarc*; Antarctica; aurora australis; Australian Antarctic Division; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5252561; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5252561

Shackletonia robusta K.H. Barnard, 1931 (Figs 23–25) Shackletonia robusta K.H. Barnard, 1931: 425. ―K.H. Barnard, 1932: 29, fig. 3. ―J.L. Barnard, 1958: 99. ― Thurston & Allen, 1969: 367. ― Arnaud, 1974: 592. ― Lowry & Bullock, 1976: 105. ― Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 529. ― De Broyer & Jazdzewski, 1993: 75. ― Wakabara et al., 1996: 355 (table I). ― Gutt et al., 2000: 80. ― De Broyer et al., 2007: 115. Material examined. 1 male, 22.4 mm, MV J38209, off Larsemann Hills, eastern Prydz Bay, Antarctica, 68°54.88'S 76°37.03'E, 667 m, epibenthic sled, 18 February 1993, M. O'Loughlin, stn AA93-158. — 1 specimen, AAD collection, 230 km north of Shackleton Ice Shelf, Bruce Rise, Australian Antarctic Territory, Southern Ocean, 63°31'10"S 100°51'27"E to 63°30'54"S 100°50'54"E, 1266.79–1274.78 m, beam trawl, 29 December 2009, Australian Antarctic Division, RSV Aurora Australis, stn BR09 BTC02. Description. Mandible molar a setose subtriangular flap. Maxilla 1 palp large, 2-articulate, with apical robust setae. Maxilliped inner plate well developed; outer plate without subapical notch. Gnathopod 2 dactylus reaching corner of palm. Pereopods 5 and 6 merus broader than long. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner produced into a spine. Uropod 1 peduncle dorsolateral margin with more than 10 robust setae. Uropod 2 peduncle dorsolateral margin not castellate, with elongate robust setae. Uropod 3 reaching beyond the end of uropod 2; rami longer than peduncle, with plumose setae; outer ramus article 2 vestigial. Telson much longer than broad, deeply cleft (about 80%). Distribution. South Shetland Island, South Georgia; Bruce Rise and Prydz Bay, Antarctica; 230–1275 m depth. Published as part of Stoddart, H. E. & Lowry, J. K., 2012, Revision of the lysianassoid genera Acidostoma and Shackletonia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Acidostomatidae fam. nov.), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3307 (1) on pages 27-30, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3307.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5250488