Belonectes

• Main Authors: Malyutina, Marina V., Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Munnopsidae; Belonectes; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6214081; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B78785FF8A8510FF5C52831FE72398

Key to the species of Belonectes 1. Width of fused middle part between pereonites 5 and 6 less than 0.5 of pereonite 5 width. 2 - Width of fused middle part between pereonites 5 and 6 more than 0.5 of pereonite 5 width. 4 2. Article 1 of antennula enlarged, almost reaching to distal margin of rostrum, distomedial lobes of male pleopod 1 shorter than distolateral lobes, medial margin of maxilliped palp article 3 rounded. B. daytoni sp. nov. - Article 1 of antennula reaching no further than 0.7 rostrum length, distomedial lobes of male pleopod 1 longer than distolateral lobes, medial margin of maxilliped palp article 3 somewhat angled. 3 3. Body cuticle with fingerprint pattern, medial lobe of maxilliped palp article 4 broad, width 2.4 article 5 width, distomedial lobes of male pleopod 1 narrow, rounded, distolateral part of male pleopod 2 protopod enlarged, bent dorsally forming ventral keel. B. stoddarti sp. nov. - Body cuticle smooth, medial lobe of maxilliped palp article 4 elongate, width 1.3 article 5 width, distomedial lobes of male pleopod 1 broad, triangular, male pleopod 2 protopod not bent dorsally forming a ventral keel. . B. grasslei sp. nov. 4. Pleotelson rounded terminally, distomedial lobes of male pleopod 1 truncate. B. parvus - Pleotelson truncated terminally, distal lobes of male pleopod 1 rounded. B. latifrons Published as part of Malyutina, Marina V. & Brandt, Angelika, 2009, Description of three new species of the deep-sea munnopsid genus Belonectes (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) from the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean, pp. 33-52 in Zootaxa 2277 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191112