Four new valviferan isopods from diverse tropical Australian habitats (Crustacea: Isopoda: Holognathidae and Idoteidae)
Author
Poore, Gary C. B.
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2012
2012-12-31
69
327
340
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-69-2012/pages-327-340/
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2012.69.07
1447-2554
12212474
Zenobianopsis
Hale, 1946
Zenobianopsis
Hale, 1946:164–165
.–
Poore and Lew Ton,1990:74
.
Remarks
.
Poore and Lew Ton (1990)
rediagnosed the genus and redescribed the
type
species,
Z. caeca
Hale, 1946
. This species and the second,
Z. rotundicauda
Kussakin, 1967
are both from the Southern Ocean. Here, a third is described from deep water at a more tropical latitude.
The head of this species and of
Z. caeca
(confirmed on NMV material) possesses an obvious horizontal groove at the base of antenna 2 reaching back about one third of the head length. The groove is not seen in species of any of the other genera,
Cleantis
,
Cleantioides
or
Holognathus
.