Metopa gigas Just, 2013, sp. nov.

• Main Author: Just, Jean
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Stenothoidae; Metopa; Metopa gigas; Greenland; Sund; Scoresby; Kap; Scoresby Sund; Sisimiut; Paa; Nordre Strømfjord; Alluitsup Paa; Toqulineq; East Greenland; Kap Farvel; Nordre strømfjord; Sydprøven
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6160469; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6160469

Metopa gigas sp. nov. Figs 1–4 Type fixation. Holotype, ♀, here designated. Etymology. The epithet is the Latin noun for Giant. Material examined. Holotype, ♀, 19.0 mm, West Greenland, Godthaabsfjord [Kugssukfjord], approximately 64 °N 52 °W, ca. 300 m, ‘ Tjalfe’ stn 52, 15 June 1908, ZMUC CRU- 20522. Paratypes. Same data as holotype, ZMUC CRU- 20523 (15 specimens, juveniles and immature). Southernmost Greenland: S of Akuliaruseq, 60 °08.6’N 44 °10.7’W, 400 – 250 m, rectangular dredge on steep rock face with hydroids, Kap Farvel Expedition, stn 103, 17 August 1970, ZMUC CRU- 20524 (1 ♀, 23 immature). Southernmost island in Toqulineq, 60 °04.5’N 43 °02.7’W, 240 m, stones, gravel, clay, Bryozoa, rectangular dredge, Kap Farvel Expedition, stn 136, 25 August 1970, ZMUC CRU- 20525 (1 3, 19.1 mm). Off Sydprøven [Alluitsup Paa], 60 ° 20 ’N 47 ° 27 ’W, 120 m, on Hydroida, ottertrawl, ‘ Godthaab’ Expedition, stn 188, 10 October 1928, ZMUC CRU- 20526 (1 specimen *). East Greenland: Scoresby Sund, Stewart Land, 70 ° 30 ’N, 300 m, East Greenland Expedition 1900, 29 July 1900, ZMUC CRU- 20527 (1 specimen *). Scoresby Sund, Kap (Cape) Tobin, 70 ° 22 ’N 22 °05’W, 108 m, stones, East Greenland Expedition 1900, 21 August 1900, ZMUC CRU- 20528 (1 3, 19.2 mm, 3 immature*). East Greenland Expedition 1900, (no further data, but presumably Scoresby Sund area), ZMUC CRU- 20529 (1 immature*). East Greenland Expedition 1900, (no further data, but presumably Scoresby Sund area), ZMUC CRU- 20530 (1 immature*). West Greenland: Nordre Strømfjord, ca. 30 km from mouth of fjord, N of Holsteinsborg [Sisimiut], approximately 67 ° 30 ’N 53 ° 30 ’W, 200–240 m, V. Nordmann, 1911, stn 3 C, ZMUC CRU- 20531 (1 specimen *). Note. Specimens in the ZMUC collections here marked * were reported as Metopa clypeata (Kr) by Stephensen (1931, 1944). Description. (Based on holotype). Head length (tip of rostrum to pereonite 1) as pereonite 1 and half of 2 combined; interantennal lobe strongly projecting, broadly rounded; eyes small, round, occupying ...