Litarcturus Brandt 1990

Key to the species of the genus Litarcturus Brandt, 1990 1. Pleotelson without caudal spines. L. bicornis (Kensley, 1984) - Pleotelson with caudal spines. 2 2. Head without supraocular spines. 3 - Head with supraocular spines. 6 3. Pereonites 1–7 with submedial spines. L. americanus (Beddard, 1886)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liu, Wenliang, Sha, Zhongli
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Antarcturidae
Litarcturus
Bouvier
Miers
Antarc*
antarcticus
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5672111
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5672111
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Summary:Key to the species of the genus Litarcturus Brandt, 1990 1. Pleotelson without caudal spines. L. bicornis (Kensley, 1984) - Pleotelson with caudal spines. 2 2. Head without supraocular spines. 3 - Head with supraocular spines. 6 3. Pereonites 1–7 with submedial spines. L. americanus (Beddard, 1886) - Pereonites 1–7 without submedial spines. 4 4. Pleotelson with caudal spines not surpassing apex. L. lillei (Tattersall, 1921) - Pleotelson with caudal spines surpassing apex. 5 5. Head with supraocular lobe. L. antarcticus (Bouvier, 1910) - Head without supraocular lobe. L. coppingeri (Miers, 1881) 6. Head with supraocular spines surpassing apex. 7 - Head with supraocular spines not surpassing apex. L. granulosus (Nordenstam, 1933) 7. Pleotelson with caudal spines not surpassing apex. L. stebbingi (Beddard, 1886) - Pleotelson with caudal spines surpassing apex. L. kexueiae sp. nov. Published as part of Liu, Wenliang & Sha, Zhongli, 2015, Litarcturus kexueiae sp. nov., a new deep-sea isopod from the Okinawa Trough (Crustacea, Isopoda, Valvifera, Antarcturidae), pp. 531-540 in Zootaxa 4013 (4) on page 532, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/236981

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