Lepidepecreoides talboti Lowry & Stoddart, 2002, n.sp.

• Main Authors: Lowry, J. K., Stoddart, H. E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2002
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Tryphosidae; Lepidepecreoides; Lepidepecreoides talboti; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5409762; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1A2587F23C11FF9767BFFF6AFEB00931

Lepidepecreoides talboti n.sp. Lepidepecreoides nubifer .– Griffiths, 1977: 98, fig. 4. Type material . HOLOTYPE, female, 17 mm, SAM A10547, [west of Cape Point, South Africa, southeastern South Atlantic Ocean], 34°36'S 17°00'E, 2740 m, F.H. Talbot, 10 December 1959, RS Africana II [material recorded by Griffiths, 1977 as Lepidepecreoides nubifer ]. Type locality . West of Cape Point, South Africa, southeastern South Atlantic Ocean, 34°36'S 17°00'E, 2740 m depth. Description . Based on holotype female, 17 mm. Body [shape not known]. Head with lateral cephalic lobe subtriangular, apically subacute; eyes apparently absent. Antenna 1 peduncular articles 1 and 2 without anterodistal lobe; accessory flagellum 2-articulate, terminal article small, offset; flagellum with strong 2-field callynophore; robust setae present on proximal articles; calceoli absent. Antenna 2 [not known]. Epistome/upper lip [not known]. Mandible molar columnar with oval, fully triturating surface; palp attached extremely distally , article 3 without proximal A3- setae. Maxilla 1 outer plate with setal-tooth 7 [symmetry not known], cuspidate distally along inner margin; palp distal margin with apical robust setae. Maxilliped outer plate with 2 long, slender apical robust setae. Gnathopod 1 subchelate coxa large, about as long as coxa 2, subrectangular with straight anterior margin; basis sparsely setose along anterior margin; ischium short; carpus long (3.1 × breadth), longer than propodus, without posterior lobe; propodus small, margins subparallel, palm acute , entire, straight. Pereonite 2 [not known]. Gnathopod 2 palm slightly obtuse. Pereonites 3–6 [dorsal margins unknown]. Pereopod 5 coxa without distinct lateral ridge; basis longer than broad, posterior margin with mid-central spine , with well-developed slender posteroventral lobe. Pereonite 7 with mid-dorsal carina (slightly developed). Pereopod 7 [unknown]. Pleonite 1 with mid-dorsal carina. Pleonite 2 with dorsal carina, rounded dorsodistally. Pleonite 3 with mid-dorsal carina, ...