Paralanceola wolffi Zeidler, 2006, sp. nov.

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Lanceolidae; Paralanceola; Paralanceola wolffi; Pacific; Seta; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6262452; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6262452

Paralanceola wolffi sp. nov. (Figs 8 & 9) Material examined (4 males) Holotype. Male, 5.6 mm (ZMUC CRU­ 4363); western South Pacific, near the Kermadec Islands [30 °08S, 176 ° 50 W]; collected by Dana (Stn. 3627 III), 3000 mw, 14 Dec. 1928. Paratypes. 1. Male, 6.0 mm (ZMUC CRU­ 4364); eastern South Atlantic, near Gulf of Guinea [0° 31 S, 11 °02W]; collected by Dana (Stn. 4000 IX); 3000 mw, 4 March 1930. 2. Two males, 4.0, 4.6 mm (ZMUC CRU­ 4365); North Atlantic, Bay of Biscay [46 ° 28 N, 8 °01W]; collected by Dana (Stn. 4158 XV); 3000 mw, 18 June 1930. Diagnosis Males reach lengths of at least 6.0 mm. Head with small rostrum and anterolateral lobe overlapping most of first flagellar article of A 1. Eyes absent or very small, composed of up to seven ocelli. Antennae 1 as long as head and first 1.5 pereonites; callynophore conical, as long as peduncle; with two small terminal articles, the terminal one twice as long as the previous one, tipped with one long seta. Antennae 2; length about 0.7 x A 1; 6 ­articulate; fourth article twice length third; two small terminal articles with three long setae terminally. Mandibular palp; length third article 1.2–1.3 x articles 1 & 2 combined. Maxillae 1; palp with several short fine setae, one robust seta and 4–5 tubercles terminally; outer lobe with five robust setae, one slightly more slender than others. Maxillae 2; inner lobe with three, and outer lobe with four, relatively long, robust, dentate setae. Maxilliped; outer lobes with dentate inner margin; inner lobes, length about one­third outer lobes. Pereopods 3 & 4 slightly shorter than P 5 (= 0.8 x). Pereopod 6 similar in length to P 3. Pereopod 7 the longest pereopod; length about 1.2 x P 6 and slightly longer than P 5. Pereopods 5–7 with retractile and hooded dactyls. Uropod 1; peduncle reaching just beyond limit of peduncle of U 2. Telson length about 0.7 x peduncle of U 3. Description of holotype Male 5.6 mm. Cuticle with faint hexagonal markings. Pereon slightly inflated mainly because of enlarged ...