Megalanceoloides remipes

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Megalanceolidae; Megalanceoloides; Megalanceoloides remipes; King George Island; Drake Passage; Scotia Sea; Pacific
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6301641; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6301641

Megalanceoloides remipes (K.H. Barnard, 1932) Lanceola remipes Barnard 1932: 255–257, fig. 159. Megalanceola remipes.— Vinogradov 1964: 114–117, figs 4–5.— Vinogradov et al. 1982 / 1996: 82 /95 (key), 82–83/97–98, fig. 26. (Considered a new species, M. gascae, by Williams & Bunkley-Williams (2019)). Megalanceoloides remipes.—Zeidler 2009: 79, fig. 28.— Zeidler & De Broyer 2009: 71.— Gasca & Haddock 2016: passim, figs 1–4 (figs 1–2 “in vivo” colour photo) (= M. aequanime Gasca, 2017).— Zeidler 2019: 514. Material examined. The unique holotype of M. remipes, a female measuring about 40 mm, from the south-west Atlantic [41°43’S 42°20’W], Discovery stn. 72, 2000–0 m, 1 June 1926 (NHM 1936.11.2.2510). Southwest Atlantic: male (USNM 301871), Cruise 4, stn. 154, Drake Passage [54°43’S 64°28’W], 2105 m, 16 August 1962; female (figured here) (USNM 1089977), Cruise 6, stn. 448, South Shetlands, east of King George Island [61°06’S 59°15’W], 2580 m, 14 January 1963; poor specimen (USNM 1089983), Cruise 8, stn. 592, Scotia Sea, north-east of South Sandwich Island [55°15’S 25°37’W], 2562 m, 29 April 1963; male (USNM 1090231), Cruise 9, stn. 670, north of South Georgia [50°28’S 35°02’W], 1565 m, 21 August 1963. Southeast Pacific: all western Drake Passage; juvenile male (USNM 1090233), Cruise 10, stn. 778 [59°35’S 82°30’W], 1251–1691 m, 19 October 1963; female (USNM 1090236), Cruise 10, stn. 832 [62°36’S 74°40’W], 1775–2723 m, 4 November 1963; juvenile male (USNM 1090237), Cruise 10, stn. 852 [56°39’S 74°59’W], 3111 m, 13 November 1963; male (figured here) (USNM 1090239), Cruise 10, stn. 877 [55°23’S 78°16’W], 1940 m, 29 November 1963. Description of male (Figs 1–2) Specimen (USNM 1090239) measuring 34 mm along a parabolic line drawn through the mid-section of the body from the front of the head to the tip of the telson. Body elongate, not massive; pereon and pleon highly sculptured with slight dorsal keel and lateral depressions (see Zeidler 2009, fig. 28; also colour photos by Gasca & Haddock 2019, fig. 1). ...