Deep-sea asellote isopods (Crustacea, Eumalacostraca) of the north-west Atlantic: the family Haploniscidae
Author
George, Robert Y.
text
Journal of Natural History
2004
2004-10-10
38
3
337
373
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022293021000030844
journal article
10.1080/0022293021000030844
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Antennuloniscus
Menzies, 1962
Type
species:
Antennuloniscus dimeroceras
(Barnard, 1920)
.
Diagnosis
.
Haploniscidae
with third peduncle article of antenna 2 elongate and grooved to accommodate the distal articles when the antenna is folded caudally. Peduncle article 4 short, 5 and 6 fused; whip-like flagellum small, slender and subterminal.
Remarks.
This genus is similar to
Haploniscus
but undoubtedly different as discussed by Menzies and Schultz (1968) in describing
Antennuloniscus subellipticus
from the south Atlantic off Cape Horn, and
A. quadratus
from the Indian ocean off
Madagascar
. The
type
species
A. dimeroceras
Barnard, 1920
was collected from both the north and south Atlantic. Two other south Atlantic deep-sea species are
A. ornatus
Menzies, 1962
off Cape Horn and
South Georgia
and
A. armatus
Menzies 1962
, from off
South Africa
. Chardy (1974) described yet another species,
A. dilatatus
, from the north-east Atlantic off the Azores. The addition of two new species,
A. menziesi
n. sp.
and
A. lincolni
n. sp.
from the north-west Atlantic, in this study, brings the total known species of this genus to nine. This genus was not reported by Menzies and George (1972) while studying haploniscid isopods in the south-east Pacific, and it was not found in the north-east Pacific, in the study of haploniscids by Birstein (1963).