Lepidepecreum urometacarinatum Andres 1983

• 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; Lepidepecreum; Lepidepecreum urometacarinatum; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Enderby Land; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5409775; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1A2587F23C05FF826481F986FA650ADC

Lepidepecreum urometacarinatum Andres Lepidepecreum carinatum Andres, 1983: 187, figs. 1, 2 [not L. carinatum Bate & Westwood, 1861]. Lepidepecreum urometacarinatum Andres, 1985: 134 [new name for L. carinatum Andres, 1983].–Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 496.–De Broyer & Jazdzewski, 1993: 70. Material examined . 723 specimens (males, females and juveniles), USNM 306583; 50 specimens, AM P57740; Weddell Sea, Antarctica, 74°07'S 39°38'W, 731 m, epibenthic sled, 6 February 1968, USCGC Glacier , IWSOE cruise 1, stn 0001. — 1 specimen, NMV J12923, off Enderby Land, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, 66°2.90'S 49°49.40'E to 66°3.00'S 49°49.40'E, 738 OR 806 m, epibenthic sled, M. Norman, MS Nella Dan stn HRD 012. Type locality . Antarctic Peninsula, 64°00'S 64°30'W, 100– 382 m over water depth 385 m. Remarks . These records extend the known distribution of L. urometacarinatum into the eastern Antarctic. Distribution . Antarctic Peninsula, Weddell Sea and Enderby Land, Antarctica; 100–806 m depth. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank the late Eric Dahl, who originally made the LUCE lysianassoid amphipods available to us, Gary Poore (NMV), and Rafael Lemaitre (then of SOSC) for making other material available to us; Rachael Peart and Kate Dempsey for the illustrations; and Roger Springthorpe for making the plates. Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2002, The Lysianassoid Amphipod Genera Lepidepecreoides and Lepidepecreum in Southern Waters (Crustacea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae), pp. 335-364 in Records of the Australian Museum 54 (3) on page 363, DOI:10.3853/j.0067-1975.54.2002.1329, http://zenodo.org/record/10092532