New species and records of Asellota from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda)
Author
Kensley, B
Author
Schotte, M
text
Journal of Natural History
2002
36
1421
1461
journal article
1464-5262
Stenetrium assumentum
sp. nov.
(gure 19)
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
:
ZMUC
,
4.9 mm
, sta CRU-1904, intertidal reef at,
Bawe Island
,
Zanzibar
,
26 September 1995
.
PARATYPES
:
ZMUC
, two
3.5–4.8 mm
, one ovigerous 6.0 mm
,
USNM 253292
, one
4.5 mm
, sta CRU-1890, coral heads in sand,
Changuu Island
,
Zanzibar
,
7 m
,
19 September 1995
.
Diagnosis.
Cephalon with strong anterolateral and antennal teeth; rostrum basally broader than long, anterior margin straight. Eyes reniform. Scattered reticulation of red-brown pigment on cephalon, pereonites and pleotelson, latter with large strongly pigmented middorsal patch at base. Pereopod 1 of male, carpus not produced posterodistally; propodus expanded, with strong tooth demarcating palm, followed by two small teeth, deep U-shaped emargination plus single tooth close to articulation of dactylus; latter with about 15 small setae on cutting margin. Operculum of female roughly pentagonal, 1.5 times longer than wide.
FIG. 19.
Stenetrium assumentum
sp. nov.
: (A) male dorsal view; (B) male pereopod 1; (C) female pereopod 1; (D) male pleopod 2; (E) male pleopod 1; (F) female opercular pleopod 2.
Etymology.
The speci c name, from the Latin
assumentum
, a patch, refers to the strong blob of pigment at the base of the pleotelson.