New species of Bairdioidea (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from the Southern Ocean and discussions on Bairdoppilata simplex (Brady, 1880),? Bairdoppilata labiata (Müller, 1908) and Bythopussella aculeata (Müller, 1908) *
Author
Brandão, Simone N.
text
Zootaxa
2008
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.183820
287b1420-5c7c-4a05-ae95-e4c9121b51a6
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183820
?
Bairdoppilata
sp. 1 aff.
?
B. labiata
(
Müller, 1908
)
(Figs. 3.15, 3.17, 4, 5.E, F, N, 8.B, E, H, I, L, P, Q, 9.G–L, 12.O–Q)
1969 in
part
Bairdoppilata
(
Bairdoppilata
?)
simplex
, Maddocks: 77–78,
Fig. 42
.
2000?
Bairdoppilata
cf.
B. simplex
, Dingle
: 486, 488, Figs. 2, 3, 5.C, table. 2.
Material.
1 A F,
Bairdoppilata
(
Bairdoppilata
?)
simplex
(
Brady, 1880
)
, RV
Eltanin
station 418, 62°39–40’S, 56°8–10’W,
311 to 426m
, Ref. 58,
USNM
121347
. This living female was illustrated by
Maddocks (1969, p. 77, fig. 42B)
; this is Maddocks’ specimen no. 191.
1 A M,
Bairdoppilata
(
Bairdoppilata
?)
simplex
(
Brady, 1880
)
, RV
Eltanin
station 1345, 54°50–51’S, 129°46–48’W,
915 to 1153m
,
USNM
121348
. This living male was identified and illustrated by
Maddocks (1969, p. 77,
Fig. 42
A, C–H)
; this is Maddocks’ specimen no. 205. (Herein Figs. 3.17, 4, 5.E, F, 8.E, H, L, P, Q, 9.G–L).
1 RV, ROSSMIZE, # H in 4,
ZMH
K
41363 (Herein
Fig. 12
.P–Q).
Distribution.
Southern Ocean (Atlantic and Pacific Sectors),
196 to
426m
.
Measurements (
Fig. 4
)
. USNM
121347
: RV, A F L
1.97mm
, H
0.97mm
. USNM
121348
: LV, A M L
1.70mm
, H
0.96mm
; RV L
1.68mm
, H
0.90mm
. ZMH K41363: LV, L 1.00mm, H
0.56mm
.
Remarks
. Specimens from the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean – one male, USNM
121348
, and off Northern
Antarctic
Peninsula – one female, USNM
121347
– identified by
Maddocks (1969)
as
B. simplex
are included herein. They differ from
B. simplex
in the same features as
B. simplex
differs from
?
B. labiata
(see
Remarks
from
?
B. labiata
). These two specimens are similar to
?
B. labiata
,
but their LV present a more rectilinear outline, with slightly concave anterodorsal margin (instead of slightly convex); dorsal margin of RV presents relatively shorter medial segment (
Figs. 5
.A–F, I–K, N). Additionally, the adult female (USNM
121347
) is considerably larger than the
lectotype
of
B. simplex
. Moreover, the three males of
?
B. labiata
from the Gausstation (ZMB 13069) present different hemipenis morphology than the male from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean (USNM
121348
). The distal element of specimens collected from the Gausstation is irregular, subtriangular in shape, with a distal “fingerlike” process pointing out from the rest of the hemipenis (
Figs. 8
.M–O, 9.A–D). In the specimen from the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean the distal element of the hemipenis is elongate, subovate, and the distal process forms a structure similar to a subchela (but not articulated) with the most interior part of the distal element (
Figs. 8
.P, Q, 9.G–L). The chaetotaxy of the appendages (AI, AII, Md, MxI, ApV to VII) and furcae was compared among
type
specimens of
?
B. labiata
and
?B.
sp. aff.
?
B. labiata
but no consistent difference was found. In my opinion, these differences in carapace and hemipenis are sufficient for the description of a new species, which, otherwise, should await the collection of more specimens. In addition, it is also possible that both specimens (USNM
121347
, USNM
121348
), which were collected many thousands of kilometres away from each other, belong to different species.
The only RV from Ross Sea (ZMH K41363) (
Fig. 12
.O–Q) studied herein is different from?
B. labiata
in being much smaller and presenting a convexity in mouth region of the ventral margin.