Revision of the Amphipod (Crustacea: Stegocephalidae) genera Andaniotes Stebbing, 1897 and Metandania Stephensen, 1925
Author
Berge, JØrgen
text
Journal of Natural History
2001
2010-12-03
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6
787
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930152123620
journal article
10.1080/00222930152123620
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Andaniotes wallaroo
Barnard, 1972
Andaniotes wallaroo
Barnard, 1972: 307
.
Material examined
VictoriaÐJ2321,
two specimens
, 39
ss
32.8
¾
S, 144
ss
16
¾
E,
18 m
; J2322,
one specimen
, 39
ss
32.8
¾
S, 144
ss
21
¾
E,
27 m
; J2638,
one specimen
, 40
ss
38.0
¾
S, 145
ss
23
¾
E,
36 m
; J7618,
six specimens
,
39
ss
6.83
¾
S, 144
ss
49.64
¾
E,
65 m
;
J45324
,
three specimens
(
one male
,
two females
)
,
39
ss
43.7
¾
S, 147
ss
19.6
¾
E,
59 m
;
J45325
, ®ve specimens, 38
ss
55.5
¾
S, 145
ss
17.0
¾
E,
70 m
;
J45326
,
one specimen
,
39
ss
06.7
¾
S, 143
ss
28.7
¾
E,
92 m
;
J45327
,
one specimen
,
39
ss
45.55
¾
S, 145
ss
33.82
¾
E,
79 m
;
J45328
,
two specimens
,
38
ss
55
¾
S, 143
ss
25
¾
E,
67 m
;
J45329
,
three specimens
,
40
ss
56.04
¾
S, 146
ss
5.39
¾
E,
68 m
;
J45330
, ®ve specimens, 39
ss
12.9
¾
S, 146
ss
27.3
¾
E,
65 m
;
J45331
,
four specimens
(
two males
,
two females
)
,
40
ss
33.07
¾
S, 145
ss
44.69
¾
E,
68 m
;
J45332
,
nine specimens
,
40
ss
49.75
¾
S, 146
ss
31.33
¾
E,
68 m
;
J45333
,
one specimen
,
40
ss
00.0
¾
S, 144
ss
20.90
¾
E,
45 m
;
J45334
,
nine specimens
,
38
ss
32.0
¾
S, 142
ss
28.6
¾
E,
52 m
;
J45335
,
34 specimens
,
40
ss
9.95
¾
S, 147
ss
31.83
¾
E,
51 m
;
J45336
,
301 specimens
, 38
ss
52.6
¾
S, 148
ss
25.2
¾
E,
130 m
.
Distribution
Known only from
Victoria
,
18±
130 m
.
Description
Length of males and females:
5±9 mm
.
Rostrum very small.
Antennae short. Antenna 1 longer than antenna 2; ¯agellum four-articulate; accessory ¯agellum article 2 present. Antenna 2 peduncle (articles 3±5) longer than ¯agellum; article 3 short, about as long as broad; article 4 longer than article 5.
Epistome produced laterally, broad and round; epistomal plate (medial keel) produced into a small elongate medial ridge covering the entire epistome.
Mouthparts not elongate or pointed.
Mandible incisor transverse, smooth; left lacinia mobilis present, reduced, laterally straight, conical.
Maxilla 1 palp uni-articulate, rectangular, setae long, simple, slender; apex not reaching above the apex of outer plate; outer plate distally rounded; ST in two parallel rows, ®rst marginal and second submarginal, ST ®rst row with six setae (ST1±5, ST7), ST 1 ordinary (similar to ST 2±4), gap between ST 5 and ST 7; ST A±C present, part of second row; inner plate without a well developed shoulder, setae pappose.
Maxilla 2 ordinary; outer plate setae without distal hooks or cleft; inner plate setae row A covering the entire margin, clearly separated from row B, row A setae pappose, ®rst three or four setae diOEerentiated from the other setae (weakly pappopectinate); row B setae proximally simple, distally with cusps; row C present; row D absent.
Maxilliped palp four-articulate; article 2 distally unproduced; dactylus distally simple (pointed); inner plate not exceeding base of palp article 2, with three nodular setae; medial setae-row present, not reduced, vertical, setae cuspidate; distal setaerow present; inner setae-row present, not reduced (more than two setae), setae conspicuously large and strong; outer plate outer setae-row present, marginal, setae attached normally, long, robust, straight; inner setae-row present but strongly reduced, setae long, robust, slender, parallel but not appressed to outer setae-row; distal setae-group absent.
Labrum very short; lobes symmetrical and reduced.
Labium distally broad, oval.
Coxal plates and basis on the pereopods smooth. Coxae 1±3 contiguous.
Pereopod 1 coxal plate not as deep as basis; propodus subovate.
Pereopod 2 longer and thinner than pereopod 1; ischium elongate, ratio length:- breadth exceeding 1.5; ischium distal posterior margin with plumose setae; propodus subovate; palm developed.
Pereopod 4 coxa posteroventral lobe medium sized, not reaching the base of pereon segment 7; basis anterior margin without long setae, posterior margin with long setae, plumose setae on distal anterior margin, no plumose setae on distal posterior margin; ischium with plumose setae on posterior distal margin.
Pereopod 6 basis posteriorly expanded, expansion conspicuous, rounded posteriorly, without a row of long plumose setae.
Pereopod 7 basis anterior margin straight, distally rounded; with a medial row of setae, setae short and robust.
Oostegites on pereopods 2±5. Gills on pereopods 2±7.
Pleonites 1±3 dorsally smooth.
Urosomites 2 and 3 fused. Uropod 1 peduncle longer than rami, outer ramus longer than inner. Uropod 2 peduncle longer than rami, outer ramus as long as inner. Uropod 3 peduncle at least as long as rami, outer ramus two-articulate, outer ramus as long as inner.
Telson as long as broad; shorter than uropod 3 peduncle; submarginal setae on apex of each lobe; cleft; apically pointed.
Males.
Pereopod 2 propodus equally sized in males and females. Urosome conspicuously larger than in females; uropod 1 outer ramus enlarged, curved upwards; uropod 2 outer ramus ordinary; uropod 3 rami reduced.
Remarks
A male of the present species is herein described for the ®rst time.
As for
A. linearis
, the present species shows considerable allometry on the basis of pereopod 6, but also on the basis on pereopod 7 and in epimeral plate 3. All these three appendages are conspicuously more rounded in young specimens than in mature ones.