Edotia tangaroa Brandt & Bruce, 2006, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Brandt, Angelika, Bruce, Niel
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Idoteidae; Edotia; Edotia tangaroa; Ross Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6262180; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87A18257480BFEEAF9497729D6E2

Edotia tangaroa sp. nov. (Figs 1–5) Material examined : All western Ross Sea. Holotype female: Ψ (ovig. 9.0 mm), 72°18.92’S, 170°21.66’E, 12 February 2004, 130 m, grab, TAN0402/94, RV Tangaroa (NIWA 25028). Paratypes : ♂ (11.0 mm), Ψ (7.8 mm), 72°18.92’S, 170°21.66’E, 12 February 2004, 130 m, grab, TAN0402/94, RV Tangaroa (NIWA 17929). Ψ (ovig. 9.5 mm), 71°31.80–31.41’S, 170°06.66–06.79’E, 191–220 m, Ross Sea, 17 February 2004, TAN0402/94, RV Tangaroa (NIWA 17928). Ψ (ovig. 8 mm), 72°18.5’S, 170°26.8’E, 235 m, Ross Sea, 12 February 2004, Rauschert dredge, H­out 4, RV Italica, (ZMH 41221). 6 mancas I (4 at 3.0, 2 at 3.5 mm), 2 Ψ (ovig. 7.5, 8.0 mm), 4 ♂ (8.0, 8.2, 9.2, 10.0 mm), 72°17.0’S, 170°13.1’E, 316 m, Ross Sea, 16 February 2004, Rauschert dredge, H­in 3, RV Italica, (ZMH 41222). 2 mancas I (2 at 3.0 mm), 1 manca II (3.5 mm), ♂ (10.2 mm), 72° 17.2S, 170°17.9’E, 84 m, Ross Sea, 16 February 2004, Rauschert dredge, H­in 5, RV Italica (ZMH 41223). 2 mancas II (4.0, 4.5 mm), 2 Ψ (ovig. 8.0, 9.0 mm), 2 ♂ (9.2, 10.0 mm), 73°22.7’S, 170°06.9’E, 410 m, Ross Sea, 18 February 2004, Rauschert dredge, C 2, RV Italica (ZMH 41224). Diagnosis Eyes situated on frontolaterally directed, tuberculate protrusions; head with one pair of dorsal tubercles at mid­length and one pair at distal margin, almost cauliflower shaped; dorsal surface of body with small blunt tubercles; pleotelson with straight lateral margins except for blunt, apically acuminate tubercles. Antenna 1 longer and stouter than antenna 2. Bases of pereopods dorsally with small blunt spines. Description (Figs 1–4) Paratype female. Pereonites all very similar in length 4 longest and widest (see Fig. 1). Pereonites 5–7 becoming progressively narrower. Coxae of pereopods 1–7 dorsally visible, delimited by faint sutures, laterally rounded. Dorsal surface of body with blunt tubercles, except for frontal part of pleotelson. Pleotelson lateral margins straight, apex tapered at three­quarters length to form rounded point. Uropods slightly shorter than pleotelson medial ...