Notopais spicata Hodgson 1910

• Main Author: Merrin, Kelly L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Munnopsidae; Notopais; Notopais spicata; Antarc*; Antarctica; Davis Sea; McMurdo Sound; Ross Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269542; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C43687B6283BD00F177D3DA1050372DE

Notopais spicata Hodgson, 1910 (Fig. 1) Notopais spicatus Hodgson, 1910: 70 –71, pl. 8, fig. 1. Pseudarachna spicata.— Vanhöffen, 1914: 593, fig. 126.— Hale, 1937: 43 –45, figs 18–19.— Kussakin, 1967: 313 –314, fig. 54. Ilyarachna spicata.— Wolff, 1962: 95.— Amar & Roman, 1974: 579 –580, fig. 11. Echinozone spicata .— Schultz, 1976: 8 ­10, figs 3–4. Pseudarachna vanhoeffeni.— Schultz, 1976: 13. Echinozone quadrispinosa.— Brandt, 1990: 216, fig. 1 (part). Material Examined .— Holotype. Female (3.0 mm), Winter Quarters, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica, 77°49’0”S 167°7’4”E, 28 February 1902, inside 20­fathom line (36.6 metres), S.S. Discovery (BMNH 1910.3.18.150). Additional material .— Male (3.0 mm), Gauss Station, Davis Sea, Antarctica, 66°2’S 89°38’E, 12 August 1902 or 19 December 1902, 385 m, Gauss (ZMHB 17739). Description : Holotype . Body 2.3 times as long as greatest width (from spine to spine) of pereonite 2; widest at pereonite 2; cuticle not highly calcified, lightly setose. Cephalon smooth, with 2 dorsal spines; posterolateral margins rounded; ridge encompassing antennae with no extension. Pereonites 1–5 anterior margins each with 4 well­developed spines; anterolateral margins of pereonites 1–4 with spines, 5–7 rounded and smooth; pereonites 1–4 with pair of lateral, sub­marginal spines and each with pair of widely spaced, small, dorsal sub­lateral spines. Antenna 1 broken; article 1 2.1 times as long as wide, dorsal surface concave, with 1 sub­marginal robust flagellate seta, distal margin with 1 flagellate robust and 1 broom seta, superior margin with 1 simple and 1 broom seta; article 2 0.4 times as long as article 1, 2.0 times as long as wide, distal margin with 1 robust flagellate seta; remaining articles all rectangular, length varying; article 3 with 2 simple setae; article 4 with 1 simple seta; article 6 with 1 distal aesthetasc. Antenna 2 broken, articles 1–2 squat, both wider than long; article 1 superior margin with 2 simple setae; article 2 1.2 times as long as article 1, ...