Sensiava longiseta (Copepoda, Calanoida): a new genus and species from the abyss of the Weddell SeaAuthorMarkhaseva, Elena L.AuthorSchulz, KnudtextZootaxa20061368118journal article10.5281/zenodo.174833ddc7d477-80ad-499e-914b-8c1549d342121175-5326174833Sensiava longiseta
gen. et sp. nov.
(
Figs 1–7
)
Holotype
. Undissected adult male (
ZMH
Reg. no. K–40772), body length 4.80 mm. Collected Southern Ocean, Weddell Sea (
63º44’S33º48’W
),
14–15 March 2002
, above the seabed at
4975 m
.
Paratypes
. Dissected male (
ZMH
Reg. no. K–40773), body length 4.64 mm. Collection data as for
holotype
. One male (
ZMH
Reg. no. K–40774) with Mx2 dissected, body length 4.60 mm, collected Southern Ocean, Weddell Sea (
64º02’S39º06’W
),
13 March 2002
, above the seabed at 4747.5–4742.5 m,
Description. Male: total length 4.60–4.80 mm. Prosome 2.5–2.9 times longer than urosome. Rostrum with two long filaments (
Fig. 1
B–C). Somites 4–5 of prosome incompletely fused, suture clearly visible laterally; posterior corners as short rounded lobes (
Fig. 1
A–B). Caudal rami with 4 terminal setae, 1 ventral seta (
Fig. 1
E) and a small dorsal seta (
Fig. 1
B, D–E).
FIGURE 1.Sensiava longisetagen. et sp. nov.
Male, holotype (ZMH Reg. no. K–40772): A, habitus, dorsal view; B, habitus, right lateral view; D, right caudal ramus, dorsal view; E, right caudal ramus, lateral view. Male paratype (ZMH Reg. no. K–40773): C, rostrum, right lateral view. Scale bars 0.1 mm.
FIGURE 2.Sensiava longisetagen. et sp. nov.
Male, paratype (ZMH Reg. no. K–40773). A, right antennule, free segments 1–14 (ancestral segments I–XVII); segment 2 is a complex of ancestral segments II–IV; B, right antennule, free segments 15–23 (ancestral segments XVIII–XXVIII); C, free segments 15–20 (ancestral segments XVIII–XXIV). Scale bars 0.1 mm.
Antennule exceeding caudal rami by distal segment. Right antennule geniculate (
Fig. 2
A–C), 23-segmented, armature as follows:
I–1
s + 1ae, II–
IV–6
s + 4ae,
V–2
s + 2ae,
VI–2
s + 1ae,
VII–2
s + 2ae,
VIII–2
s + 1ae,
IX–2
s + 2ae, X–
XI–4
s + 3ae,
XII–1
ae, XIII–1ae, XIV–1s + 1ae + 1 small sensilla, XV–1s + 1ae, XVI–2s + 1ae, XVII–2s + 1ae, XVIII–2s + 1ae, XIX–1s + 1ae + 1 attenuation, XX–1s + 1ae + 1 spine, XXI–1s + 1ae, XXII–XXIII–1s + 1 hook-like attenuation, XXIV–2s + 1ae, XXV–2s + 1ae, XXVI–2s, XXVII–XXVIII–4s + 1ae. Left antennule (
Fig. 3
A–C) 24-segmented, differs in setation from right one in the following way: X–
XI-3
s + 3ae + 1?,
XII–1
small sensilla + 1ae, XIII–1 small sensilla + 1ae, XVII–1s + 1ae, XIX–1s + 1ae, XX–1s + 1ae, XXII–1s, XXIII–1s, 1 seta on segment 13 (ancestral segment XVI) is strongly curved on both sides (
Figs 2
A, 3B).
FIGURE 3.Sensiava longisetagen. et sp. nov.
Male, paratype (ZMH Reg. no. K–40773). A, left antennule, free segments 1–7 (ancestral segments I–IX). Segment 2 is a complex of ancestral segments II–IV; B, left antennule segments 8–17 (ancestral segments X–XX); C, left antennule segments 18–24 (ancestral segments XXI–XXVIII); D, P1; E, P1 basis; F, P1 endopod (other position); G, P5; H, right P5 exopod; I–K, left P5 exopod (different positions); L, left P5 exopod segment 2. Scale bars 0.1 mm.
Antenna (
Fig. 4
A–B), coxa with 1 seta, basis with 2 setae, exopod 8-segmented with 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 and 3 setae (as 0, 0-0-1,1,1,1,1,1,3; the second proximal segment is a compound segment of 3 fused segments: comma represents an arthrodial membrane, dash represents absence of an arthrodial membrane, see Markhaseva and Ferrari 2005), about 1.5 times as long as endopod; first endopodal segment with 1 seta, second with 6 and 6 + 2 setae (14 setae in total).
Mandible (
Fig. 4
C–E), gnathobase with 5 large and 3 small spine-like teeth plus dorsal seta; basis with 2 setae, exopod 5-segmented with 1, 1, 1, 1 and 2 setae; endopod segment 1 with 2 setae, segment 2 with 9 setae.
Maxillule (
Fig. 4
F–G), praecoxal endite with 9 terminal spines, 1 anterior and 4 dorsal setae; coxal endite with 3 setae; proximal basal and distal basal endites with 4 setae each; endopod with 9 setae; exopod with 8 setae; coxal epipodite with 9 setae.
Maxilla (
Fig. 5
A–C), proximal praecoxal endite with 5 setae; distal praecoxal endite with 3 setae; proximal coxal endite with 3 setae (1 worm-like sensory seta and 1 seta more sclerotized); distal coxal endite with 3 setae, 2 setae more sclerotized; proximal basal endite with 4 setae (2 more sclerotized, 2 worm-like, sensory); distal basal endite plus endopod with 8 sensory setae (3 longer, worm-like, 5 shorter, brush-like).
Maxilliped (Fig. 6A–C), syncoxa with 1 sclerotized seta on proximal praecoxal lobe, 2 setae on middle lobe and 3 setae (2 sclerotized, 1 poorly sclerotized) on distal praecoxal lobe; coxal lobe with 3 setae. Basis with 3 medial and 2 distal setae. Endopod 5-segmented with 4, 4, 3, 3+1 and 4 setae, 2 setae on segment 5 thicker and very long, about 1.6 times longer than basis.
P1 (
Fig. 3
D–F), basis with medial distal seta strongly curved; endopod 1-segmented with lateral lobe ornamented with denticles and 4 pores; exopod segments 1, 2 and 3 with lateral spines of similar lengths; spine of exopod segment 1 slightly exceeding base of following spine, spine of exopod segment 2 not reaching base of following spine.
P2–P4 (
Fig. 7
) endo- and exopods slender; terminal spine of exopods distinctly longer than exopod segment 3.
P2 (
Fig. 7
A), basis with row of 8–9 spinules distally on posterior surface; endopod 2- segmented, spinulated on posterior surface; exopod 3-segmented, lateral spines compact, short, of similar lengths; segment 1 with row of spinules on posterior surface; segment 2 with small spinules distally on anterior surface.
P3 (
Fig. 7
B), basis with row of small spinules distally; endopod segments all spinulated on posterior surface, segment 2 with small spinules anterodistally; exopod segment 1 with row of spinules on posterior surface distally, segment 2 covered with small spinules anterodistally; segment 3 lateral spines compact, short, all subequal in length.
Basis of P4 (
Fig. 7
C) with patch of spinules on posterior surface; endo- and exopod densely spinulated on posterior surface; endopod segment 2 and exopod segment 2 covered with small spinules on anterior surface distally.
FIGURE 4.Sensiava longisetagen. et sp. nov.
Male, paratype (ZMH Reg. no. K–40773). A, antenna exopod; B, antenna coxa, basis and endopod; C, mandible palp; D, E, mandible gnathobase (different positions); F, maxillule, posterior view; G, praecoxal endite of maxillule, anterior view. Scale bars 0.1 mm.
P5 (
Fig. 3
G–L), asymmetrical, right leg uniramous, left leg biramous; coxae fused, of similar size; left basis slightly longer than right. Right leg exopod 3-segmented; segment 1 with small, rounded projection in proximal half segment 2 with small spinule distally, segment 3 longer than preceding segment and tapering terminally. Left endopod 1- segmented, curved and longer than 2-segmented exopod, with small terminal spine. Left exopod segment 1 with large medial projection and small outer subdistal projection terminating in small spinule; exopod segment 2 structure complex (
Fig.
3
I–L), with cavity opening terminally and rows of teeth and spinules along distal half of segment.
Etymology. The species name “
longiseta
”
refers to two exceptionally long setae on the terminal segment of maxilliped.
FIGURE 5.Sensiava longisetagen. et sp. nov.
Male, paratype (ZMH Reg. no. K–40773). A, maxilla, sensory setae partly figured; B, C, sensory setae of maxilla endopod. Scale bars 0.1 mm.
Remarks.
The male of
S. longiseta
has sensory setae on maxillary endopod, as do species in the clausocalanoidean Bradfordian families
Diaixidae
,
Parkiidae
(males unknown),
Phaennidae
,
Scolecitrichidae
and
Tharybidae
. It also shares with Bradfordian families the following plesiomorphies: setation patterns (1,2,3 setae) of maxilliped praecoxal endite and of the praecoxal endite of maxilla (five setae). However,
S. longiseta
is unique among the clausocalanoidean families in possessing another plesiomorphic calanoid character; the well developed geniculate right antennule.
Sensiava longiseta
is distinguished from all Bradfordian males by the following combination of characters: i) the geniculated right antennule, ii) P5 with left leg biramous and armed with 2-segmented exopod, iii) two very long terminal setae on maxilliped endopod segment 5, which is an apomorphy for the genus.
The new genus differs from
Phaennidae
males in the setation of praecoxal endites of the maxilliped (in phaennid males a 1,2,2 setal pattern is observed, or numbers are reduced); in the composition of sensory setae on the maxilla endopod (in phaennids more than 5 brush-like sensory setae are displayed); and in P5, which has the left leg biramous (in phaennids uniramous) (
Park 1983b
;
Bradford-Grieve 2004a
).
FIGURE 6.Sensiava longiseta
gen. et sp.
nov.
Male, paratype (ZMH
Reg. no.
K–40773). A,
maxilliped, setae partly figured;
B, syncoxa
of maxilliped; C, basis and
endopod
of maxilliped.
Scale bars 0.1 mm.
FIGURE 7.Sensiava longisetagen. et sp. nov.
Male, paratype (ZMH Reg. no. K–40773). A, P2; B, P3; C, P4. All posterior views. Scale bars 0.1 mm.
Sensiava longiseta
is distinguished from males of
Scolecitrichidae
s.s. (Markhaseva & Ferrari 2005): i) in setation of praecoxal endites of the maxilliped (in scolecitrichids there are 1, 2, 1 setae, or setal numbers reduced); ii) by 5 setae on the proximal praecoxal endite of maxilla (in scolecitrichids usually 3–4 setae); iii) a 23-segmented right and 24- segmented left antennule (due to fusion of segments, 18–21 segments in right and
19–21 in
left antennule of scolecitrichid males (
Grice & Hulsemann, 1970
;
Roe 1975
;
Park 1980
,
1982
,
1983a
;
Vyshkvartzeva 2001
,
2003
;
Ohtsuka
et al.
2002
;
Schulz 2005
)); iv) in P5 bearing a left biramous leg with 2-segmented exopod (found also in
MacandrewellaA. Scott, 1909
, all remaining scolecitrichids share a 3-segmented exopod) (
Ohtsuka
et al.
2002
;
Park, 1983a
).
The new genus shows resemblance with some genera thought to belong to an ancestral Bradfordian lineage of genera. This group includes the following genera, for which the males are known:
Brodskius
Markhaseva & Ferrari, 2005
,
CenognathaBradford-Grieve, 2001
,
DiaixisSars, 1902
,
FalsilandrumiusVyshkvartzeva, 2001
,
NeoscolecithrixCanu, 1896
,
TharybisSars, 1902
, and
XantharusAndronov, 1981
. Males are still unknown for the primitive genera
Byrathis
Markhaseva & Ferrari, 2005
,
Grievella
Ferrari & Markhaseva, 2000
and
Landrumius
Park 1983
. The composition of the ancestral Bradfordian group was proposed recently as a result of analysis considered as preliminary because assumptions about the transformations of character states and the order of transformation of different characters have yet to be applied to many Bradfordian genera (Markhaseva & Ferrari 2005: 163).
The new species shares with males of
Brodskius
,
Diaixis
,
Cenognatha
,
Neoscolecithrix
,
and
Xantharus
, 24 segments on the left and 23 segments on the right antennule and differs in this character from
Tharybis
(with left antennule 23–24 and right 22–segmented) (
Andronov 2002
;
Fosshagen 1972
;
Schulz & Kwasniewski 2004
; Ferrari & Markhaseva 2005).
Sensiava longiseta
differs from
Brodskius
in the 1,2,3 setation pattern of maxilliped syncoxa (0,2,3, in
Brodskius
). The setation pattern of maxilliped (1,2,3) is shared with males of
Cenognatha
,
Neoscolecithrix
,
Tharybis
,
Xantharus
and probably with
Falsilandrumius
, whose male is only poorly described. With
Xantharus
it also shares both segmentation and setation of the antennary exopod realized as a setal pattern of 0, 0-0- 1,1,1,1,1,1,3. Both
Neoscolecithrix
and
Cenognatha
deviate from this with a pattern of 1,1-1-1,1,1,1,1,1,3, while in
Tharybis
this formula is 0,0-0-0,1,1,1,1,1,3 (
Fosshagen 1972
; Ferrari & Markhaseva 2005;
Ohtsuka
et al.
, 2003
;
Schulz 1981
;
Schulz & Kwasniewski 2004
;
Vyshkvartzeva 2001
; Markhaseva & Ferrari 2005). The new species differs from all these genera, however, in the lack of sensory setae on the praecoxal endites of maxilliped syncoxa, a feature it shares with males of some species of
Tharybis
,
viz.
T. pseudomegalodactyla
Ferrari & Markhaseva, 2005
and
T. juhlae
Ferrari & Markhaseva, 2005
, as well as with species of
Diaixis
(
Andronov 2002
)
, while the number of setae on praecoxal endites of maxilliped syncoxa in the males of the latter genus is reduced.
Sensiava longiseta
has the number and composition of sensory setae on the maxilla endopod (three worm-like plus five brush-like sensory setae) in common with some species of
Cenognatha
,
Tharybis
and
Xantharus
, and shares eight setae on the maxillulary endopod with males of
Xantharus
.
The new species is distinguished from males of all the above mentioned genera in that the left exopod of P5 is 2-segmented (3-segmented in
Brodskius
,
Cenognatha
,
Diaixis
,
Neoscolecithrix
,
Tharybis
,
and
Xantharus
; segmentation not proven for
Falsilandrumius
); it deviates from
Diaixis
in the possession of well developed oral parts (rudimentary oral parts in
Diaixis
), in two setae on the mandibular basis (three setae in
Cenognatha
,
Neoscolecithrix
,
Tharybis
,
Xantharus
) and in details of the maxillulary setation.
The new genus is preliminarily placed in the family
Diaixidae sensu Markhaseva & Ferrari (2005)
as this name is considered tentatively available to the lineage including the genera
Byrathis
,
Cenognatha
,
Diaixis
,
Falsilandrumius
,
Landrumius
,
Neoscolecithrix
and
Xantharus
.