Vinogradovopleustes punctatum Labay 2018, sp. nov.

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Pleustidae; Vinogradovopleustes; Vinogradovopleustes punctatum; okhotsk sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5952066; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/020E87EDFFCBAD6BFF30893B67D025BC

Vinogradovopleustes punctatum sp. nov. Figures 1–7 Diagnosis . With the characters of the genus. Eyes large, subreniform. Body medium, inflated, carinated middorsally on pereon, pleon and urosome. The whole surface of the body and coxal plates with a large-dotted sculpture. Rostrum elongate, about as long as peduncular segment 1 of antenna 1, apex acute. Antenna 1, segment 2 of peduncle with small anterodistal process, accessory flagellum minute, scale-like. Lower lip, outer lobes rounded not widely spread. Mandible, molar strongly triturative; palp segment 3 subequal to segment 2 in length; segment 2, inner margin weakly setose; segment 1 without setae. Maxilla 1, inner plate with single plumose apical seta; outer plate with 9 strong pectinate setae (spine-like setae). Maxilliped, inner plate reaching base of palp; outer plate reaching about 0.5 x length of palp segment 2; palp segment 2 the longest; segment 3 narrower, slightly broadened medially; dactylus slender, curved, as long as palp segment 3. Coxal plate 1–3 very deep, plate 1 with concave anterior margin; coxa plate 4 much broader, deeply excavated posteroproximally; coxal plates 5–7 posterolobate, posteriorly subquadrate. Pereopod 1, palmar margin without medial tooth, with 3–4 clusters of posterodistal strong setae (spines). Pereopod 2 subequal; carpal lobe short, produced slightly forwards along posterior margin of propodus. Pereopods 5–7, dactylus medium, 0.75 times as long as propodus. Epimeral plate 3, posteroventral corner produced into a large tooth. Type material . Holotype male (?), 8.5 mm, X 47110 Cr 2210, Okhotsk Sea, Far East of Russia (55°00'00''N 142°02'40''E, 130 m), silt and small pebble, V.Iu. Lalov, 27 August 2007. Paratypes: 1 male (?), 8.5 mm, X 47111 Cr 2211, Okhotsk Sea, Far East of Russia (51°20'20''N 144°11'41''E, 170 m), silt and pebble, I.A. Scherbakov, 20 August 2014.; 3 males (?), X 47112 Cr 2212, Okhotsk Sea, Far East of Russia (51°20'04''N 144°13'07''E, 170 m), silt and pebble, I.A. Scherbakov, 20 August 2014.; 2 males ...