Four new species of Valvifera (Crustacea: Isopoda) from ANDEEP cruises in the Weddell Sea Author Poore, Gary C. B. Museums Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Vic. 3001, Australia, Author Black, Jay R. Department of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia & Melbourne Trace Analysis for Chemical, Earth and Environmental Sciences (TrACEES) Platform, University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia text Zootaxa 2024 2024-07-09 5477 3 295 314 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.2 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.2 1175-5326 12732651 2C5FA9C0-6462-480A-9AB8-073ED54708F2 Rectarcturus Schultz, 1981 Remarks: Rectarcturus contains two species, Rectarcturus kophameli ( Ohlin, 1901 ) and R. tuberculatus Schultz, 1981 , redescribed in detail by Park & Wägele (1995) . The new species is placed in this genus on the basis of the key characters of the antenna and ornamentation ( Poore 2013 ). The single specimen is a female in which pleopod 1 is much shorter than pleopod 2; female pleopods have not been illustrated previously.