The family Opisidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australasian waters
Author
Stoddart, H. E.
Author
Lowry, J. K.
text
Zootaxa
2010
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2634.1.5
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2634.1.5
1175-5326
Podoprionides moonamoona
sp. nov.
(
Figs 10–13
)
Type material
.
HOLOTYPE
, female,
2.8 mm
,
AM
P.69034, near mouth of Moona Moona Creek, Jervis Bay,
New South Wales
,
Australia
,
35°03.5'S
150°41'E
,
4.5 m
, on test of solitary ascidian
Herdmania momus
in
Ecklonia
bed,
17 October 1981
, P.B. Berents, stn NSW-235.
PARATYPES
: female,
AM
P.69035 and male,
1.8 mm
,
AM
P.69036 and
44 specimens
,
AM
P.69037, same data as
holotype
;
2 specimens
,
AM
P.69038, same data,
19 December 1981
, stn NSW-236;
2 specimens
,
AM
P.69039, same data,
22 May 1982
, stn NSW- 241.
FIGURE 10.
Podoprionides moonamoona
sp. nov.
Holotype female, AM P.69034.
Type
locality
.
Jervis Bay
,
New South Wales
,
Australia
,
35°03.5'S
150°41'E
,
4.5 m
depth
.
Etymology
. The species name refers to the
type
locality.
Diagnostic description
.
Antenna 1
callynophore absent; calceoli absent in male.
Eyes
present.
Mouthpart bundle
subconical.
Mandible
left incisor with straight margin, minutely serrate, right with strongly convex margin, smooth; lacinia mobilis absent; molar absent; palp attached extremely proximally, article 2 longer than article 3.
Maxilla 1
outer plate with 9 setal teeth in a 6/3 crown arrangement, outer row with cusps in 1 row; palp apical margin serrate, without apical setae.
Maxilliped
palp 3-articulate.
Gnathopod 1
chelate; ischium short; carpus posterior margin produced into broad triangular lobe; propodus subquadrate, proximal margin produced into strong posteroproximal lobe, palm smooth with a small central bump, posterodistal corner produced into long acute spine, without robust setae.
Gnathopod 2
minutely subchelate; carpus much longer than propodus (about 2 x); palm transverse.
Pereopod 4
coxa posteroproximal excavation small.
Pereopods 5–7
basis with strongly serrate posterior margin; dactylus short, slender.
Epimeron 3
posterior margin smooth, posteroventral corner rounded.
Uropod 3
peduncle subequal to inner ramus, without distoventral spur; inner ramus shorter than outer ramus; outer ramus 2-articulate, article 2 long; rami without robust setae, without plumose setae.
Telson
about as long as broad, moderately cleft (about 56%), without dorsal robust setae.
Male.
Same as female except:
Gnathopod 1
palm with large irregular central protrusion; dactylus with irregular protrusion on inner margin.
Pereopod 7
merus anterodistal corner with single very large, distally complex robust seta.
Remarks.
Podoprionides moonamoona
differs from both
P. incerta
and
P. akantha
in the absence of a callynophore, the ornamentation of gnathopod 1 palm, and the peduncle of uropod 3 subequal to the rami, which is based on our examination of the orginal
type
of
P. incerta
.
Distribution.
Eastern
Australia
;
4.5 m
depth