Lebbeus eludus Jensen, 2006, new species

• Main Author: Jensen, Gregory C.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Hippolytidae; Lebbeus; Lebbeus eludus; Banks Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6260912; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E5879F56402D30BB4307A3043CFD94

Lebbeus eludus new species Figs. 1–3; 4A,B Type material : Holotype male, postorbital carapace length 6.9 mm. Burrows Channel, Anacortes, Washington (48.29.4°N, 122.41.7°W), suction gun, 14 m, 6 December 1997, G.C. Jensen, collector. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USNM 1092254. Also allotype, 6.5mm, same location and date, USNM 1092255. Paratypes collected at the same location as above, and same date except as noted. U.S. National Museum of Natural History (2 males, USNM 1092256); California Academy of Sciences (2 males, l female, 21 November 1997, 16 m, CASIZ 174052); Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (2 male, 1 female, 21 November 1997, 16 m, LACM CR 1997-140.1); National Science Museum, Tokyo (2 males, 1 female, NSMT-Cr 16842); British Columbia Provincial Museum (1 male, RBCM 006-00056). Female, 12.9 mm cl, Griffith Harbor, west coast of Banks Island, British Columbia, Canada (53.36.04°N, 130.32.55°W), 5–8 m, 20 July 1974, A. Peden, collector, RBCM 974-00383-3. Description : Integument smooth, thick. Rostrum short, horizontal or descending, 0.31–0.48 carapace length; usually slightly exceeding cornea and reaching 0.66–0.75 length of first article of antennular peduncle. Carapace with two postorbital dorsal teeth, the anteriormost smaller and usually obscured in lateral view by the supraorbital spine. Rostrum lacking dorsal teeth (rarely with one tooth) and usually with one ventral, subterminal tooth. Supraorbital spine massive, with very deep ventral notch; suborbital and antennal spines strong; anterolateral margin extremely convex; pterygostomian spine distinct (Fig. 2 A). Abdomen smooth except for deep, dorsal, transverse furrow on the second abdominal somite. Dorsal posterior margin of third abdominal somite strongly produced. Pleuron of first abdominal somite with slight anterior lobe; ventral margin rounded. Pleura of abdominal somites 2 and 3 rounded; pleura of fourth and fifth abdominal somites with posteroventral spines; spine on fourth sometimes obsolescent ...