Megamoera striata Labay, 2013, sp. nov.

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Megamoera; Megamoera striata; Humps; Okhotsk; Seta; okhotsk sea; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5620496; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5620496

Megamoera striata sp. nov. Figures 10 –13, 34 b Diagnosis. Pleon segments 1–3 with central tooth and 0–2 lateral denticles on each side; pleons 2 and 3 with central tooth and 2 denticles. Urosome segment 1 with central tooth and 1 lateral denticle; urosome 2 with 2 pairs of short teeth and single cuspidate seta. Telson lobes, proximal subapical notch more on outer margin. Anterior head lobe shallow, lower margin with prominent accessory process. Pereopod 1 (male) broadest distally, palm oblique, sharply angled from posterior margin. Pereopod 2 (male), anterior margin of dactyl strongly setose; palm oblique, convex, with low irregular hinge tooth and stout postero-distal tooth. Maxilla 1, palp segment 1 with 4 lateral setae. Maxilla 2, inner plate, facial setae developed, submarginal in position. Uropod 3, proximal segment of outer ramous slender, with 5–8 clusters of marginal cuspidate setae on each margin. Type material. Holotype male, 30 mm, X 37859 Cr 1425, north-east shelf of Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea, Far East of Russia (51 ° 28.1 'N 143 ° 49.5 'E, 75 m), silt and sand, M.G. Rogotnev & P.V. Polupanov, 23 July 2010. Paratypes: 3 males, X 37863 Cr 1429 with same data as holotype; 2 males X 37860 Cr 1426, the north-east shelf of Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea, Far East of Russia (52 ° 25 'N 143 ° 51 'E, 101 m), sand, M.G. Rogotnev; 3 males X 37862 Cr 1428, north-east shelf of Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea, Far East of Russia (52 ° 24 ' 98 N 143 ° 52 ' 518 E, 88 m), sand, M.G. Rogotnev. Type locality. The north-east shelf of Sakhalin Island, Okhotsk Sea, Far East of Russia (51 ° 28.1 'N 143 ° 49.5 'E, 75–85 m). Description. Known only by males. Male (30 mm). Vital body color maroon with light spots on body segments and with light bands on the segments of the limbs (Figs. 10 a, 12 a, c, d, e, f, 13 a, j, k, l). Cuticle (all coxa, basis of pereopods 3–7, epimeral plates 1–3) with cuspidate mictotrichs, each set in a center of hollow (Fig. 12 g). Pereon segments smooth dorsally, without teeth or humps (Fig. 10 ...