Ensayara entrichoma Gable & Lazo-Wasem 1990

• Main Authors: Lowry, James K., Hughes, Lauren E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Endevouridae; Ensayara; Ensayara entrichoma; Lazo; Lowry; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5314790; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5314790

Ensayara entrichoma Gable & Lazo-Wasem, 1990 Ensayara entrichoma Gable & Lazo-Wasem, 1990: 721, figs 1–4.— Lowry & Stoddart, 1997: 42. Type material. Holotype,?male, 2.2 mm, YPM 8820. Paratypes: female, ovigerous, 2.5 mm, YPM 8821; 1 specimen, 2.4 mm, YPM 8822; 1 specimen, 2.4 mm, YPM 8823; 1 specimen, 2.4 mm; 1 specimen, 1.9 mm, USNM 1081159. [Not examined] Type locality. Cove west of Bermuda Biological Station, Ferry Reach, Bermuda, North Atlantic Ocean, living among Thalassia and red algae, 2–3 m depth. Habitat. Unknown, 2–73 m depth. Diagnosis. Head lateral cephalic lobe acute. Maxilla 1 palp article 2 with 4 setae. Maxilliped inner plate with 1 robust setae. Coxae 1 to 3 ventral margin with dense fringe of fine setae. Gnathopod 1 basis anterior margin smooth, not cuspidate. Pereopod 3 carpus posterior margin about as long as free proximal margin of propodus, posteroproximal margin slightly produced, subtriangular; propodus palm extremely obtuse, margin slightly convex. Pereopod 7 basis, posteroventral corner excavate. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner acute. Uropods 1 and 2 rami without robust setae. Uropod 3 outer ramus 2 articulate, article 2 with 1.9 × width; inner ramus subequal to article 1 of outer ramus. Distribution. Bermuda (Gable & Lazo-Wasem 1990); eastern Gulf of Mexico (Lowry & Stoddart 1997). Published as part of Lowry, James K. & Hughes, Lauren E., 2015, Endevouridae, a review with description of four new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 4018 (1) on page 17, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4018.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289425