Paraleptognathia fastuosa 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 fastuosa; Seta; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5515829; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5515829

Paraleptognathia fastuosa n. sp. (Fig.24, 25) Material examined: Ten individuals. Holotype ZMH K­40628 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 344, one female. Paratypes ZMB 27521 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 345, one female, ZMH K­40629 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 340, four females (one dissected), two males, ZMH K­40630 RV ”Meteor” 48 St. 340, two females. Diagnosis: Cheliped carpus long carpal shield small; propodus of pereopod 1 with spinules; pereon with prominent pereopod shoulders. Description: non­ovigerous female. Body (Fig. 24a, b): about 6.5 times as long as broad. Body length 2.3 to 4.3 mm. Cephalothorax (Fig. 24a, b): oval shaped, about 1.2 times longer than broad. Pereon (Fig. 24a, b): pereonite 6 shortest, pereonite 1 as long as 5 and shorter than 2, pereonite 2, 3, 4 subequal. Pleon (Fig. 24a, b): pleonite 5 longest, pleonites 1, 2, 3, 4 subequal; pleonites 2, 3, 4, 5 with lateral simple setae; pleotelson pentameral. Antennule (Fig. 24c): article 1 longest, with one long seta; article 2 with four short simple setae; article 3 shortest, with three terminal simple setae; article 4 with five terminal setae. Antenna (Fig. 24e): article 1 short, semifused to cephalothorax; article 2 as long as wide, with one short spiniform dorsal seta; article 3 with one simple distal seta; article 4 longest, with two distal simple long, one distal short and one short simple setae at midlength; article 5 with one simple long distal seta; article 6 shortest, with four terminal simple setae. Labrum (Fig. 25e): hood­shaped, with a row of setules on the distal lateral margins. Mandible (Fig. 25d): well calcified; pars molaris bent ventrally; lacinia mobilis spiniform, blunt. Maxillula (Fig. 25b): endite with 14 rows of setules dorsally and four ventral rows. One short, two pinnate and four simple terminal spiniform setae. Maxilla (Fig. 25g): no special features. Labium (Fig. 25f): composed of two triangular lobes with a row of setules at the distal edge. Maxilliped (Fig. 25h): endites smooth, basis tongue­shaped. Epignath (Fig. 25c): as long as maxillula, with ...