Lophogastrida and Mysida (Crustacea) of the “ DIVA- 1 ” deep-sea expedition to the Angola Basin (SE-Atlantic)
Author
Wittmann, Karl J.
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-04-16
628
1
43
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2020.628
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Genus
Petalophthalmus
Willemoës-Suhm, 1874
Petalophthalmus
Willemoës-Suhm, 1874
: XIV [male only; females belong to
Birsteiniamysis inermis
(
Willemoës-Suhm, 1874
)
]
Petalophthalmus
–
Willemoës-Suhm
1875
: 43
(male only). —
Perrier
1893
:
1026
. —
Faxon
1895
: 223
. —
Tattersall & Tattersall
1951
: 120
. —
Pillai
1965
:
1684
(
partim
). — O.S.
Tattersall
1968
: 273
(
partim
). —
Panampunnayil
1982
: 643
(
partim
). —
Kathman
et al.
1986
: 214
. —
Bravo & Murano
1997
a
: table 1. —
San Vicente
& Corbari
2015
: fig. 8 (
partim
). —
San Vicente
2017
: 154
. —
Mees & Meland
2019
(in database).
Revised diagnosis
Petalophthalminae
with antennal scale setose all around; eyes not miniaturized, nonetheless cornea reduced, without or with some scattered visual elements, together not forming a compound sensory organ; anterior margin of carapace without pair of distinct submedian processes, rostrum present or absent; lacinia mobilis absent in one mandible, developed in the other one; pars centralis absent or reduced to one spine (tooth, digitus); thoracic endopods 3–4 reduced to 1–2 short segments; thoracic endopods 5–8 slender, with more than five segments; flagellum of thoracic exopods 3–8 with 13–21 segments; pleopods biramous in males, biramous or uniramous in females; telson large, subquadrangular, terminal margin truncate with or without slight emargination, terminal margin without or with two submedian groups of small teeth, in any case with 7–13 large, toothed spines, without setae.
Type
species
Petalophthalmus armiger
Willemoës-Suhm, 1875
.
Distribution of the species included
Petalophthalmus armiger
with panoceanic distribution,
56
°
N
to
46° S
, mesopelagic to abyssobenthic,
900–4572 m
depth;
Petalophthalmus cristatus
sp. nov.
from the SE-Atlantic,
Angola
Basin, depth Ĺ
5497 m
;
Petalophthalmus papilloculatus
San Vicente
, Frutos & Cartes,
2014
, from the NE-Atlantic, Galicia Bank off Iberian Peninsula,
1536
–
1809
m
depth;
Petalophthalmus papuaensis
San Vicente
& Corbari,
2015
, from the tropical W-Pacific, Bismarck Sea,
800–
1065
m
depth.