Mucrosenia kendalli Gee & Huys 1994

• Main Authors: Garlitska, Lesya, Chertoprud, Elena S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Hexanauplia; Harpacticoida; Pseudotachidiidae; Mucrosenia; Mucrosenia kendalli; East Siberian Sea; Kara Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5564061; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA2D32203BFFD8FF0C161CD3FEF926

Mucrosenia kendalli Gee & Huys, 1994 (Fig. 2) Specimens examined. Male dissected on four slides (collection number IORAS-Har204–207), collected from 27 m depth at location 73°14’044”N 156°25’957”E (East Siberian Sea); and two additional males dissected on four slides each (collection numbers IORAS-Har208–211 and IORAS-Har212–215), collected at same location. Specimens were collected in September 2017, leg. A. Udalov. Additional material: two males collected from the Kara Sea in September 2015 (at 125 and 301 m depth); seven males and four females from East Siberian Sea in September 2017 (at 27, 45 and 58 m depth). Description of male. Total body length measured from tip of rostrum to posterior margin of caudal rami: 330 μm. Antennule (Fig. 2A–E) six-segmented, sub-chirocer. Segment 1 (Fig. 2A) with three rows of spinules on dorsal surface and a pinnate seta at anterior distal corner. Segment 2 (Fig. 2 A) short with pinnate seta at anterior distal corner. Segment 3 (Fig. 2B) almost triangular with ten setae: two strongly pinnate setae at posterior margin, one pinnate seta at anterior proximal corner, seven (three of which are pinnate) setae medially on anterior margin. Segment 4 (Fig. 2C) short and rectangular with eight setae at anterior distal corner (one of them long and pinnate). Segment 5 (Fig. 2D) moderately swollen with convoluted anterior face bearing two rows of denticles; ten setae and on anterior distal corner, five setae pinnate, one short and four long simple setae, and an aesthetasc at distal corner. Segment 6 (Fig. 2E) convoluted; with row of spinules and three pinnate setae at proximal margin, three pinnate and three plane setae and an aesthetasc at distal margin. P2 (Fig. 2F). Intercoxal sclerite almost square and unadorned. Coxa with row of small spinules in centre of anterior part and tree rows of spinules on distal margin. Basis with outer pinnate seta and row of spinules at base of rami. Both rami three-segmented, almost equal length. Exopod-1 with rows of spinules on outer and distal ...