New or amended data on Mediterranean Amphipoda: genera Dexamine, Ericthonius and Stenothoe
Author
Krapp-Schickel, T.
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-02-08
3613
2
125
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.2
1175-5326
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Dexamine filiola
. sp. n
Fig. 2–4
Bellan-Santini, 1982: 222–224
, fig. 151–152 sub
Dexamine spinosa
Type material.
Holotype
: fem. ov.
3 mm
,
Portovenere
(
Liguria
,
Italy
)
Cystoseira
2m
depth
,
July 1966
;
T
. Krapp-
Schickel
coll.; slide MVRCr 7604.
Paratype
: fem. with embryos,
5mm
, same locality, same collector; in alcohol at the Verona Museum.
Additional material (all in the alcohol collection at the Verona Museum):
1 fem. ov.
4mm
,
10 juveniles
3 mm
,
Portovenere
(
Liguria
,
Italy
)
Cystoseira
2m
depth
,
July 1966
;
T
. Krapp-
Schickel
coll.
2 ad.
3mm
, 20 immat.
Rovinj
,
Val Faborsa
,
Cymodocea nodosa
10–25m
,
July 1967
,
T
. Krapp-
Schickel
coll.
Napoli-Ischia
,
Porto
, several fem.
3–4 mm
;
29.3. 1969
;
U. Schiecke
coll.
Napoli-Ischia
,
Secca di Forio
,
50m
, 2 fem.; 1969;
U. Schiecke
coll.
Napoli-Ischia
,
Vervece
,
30–35m
, 1 fem.; 1969;
U. Schiecke
coll.
FIGURE 2.
Dexamine filiola
sp. n.
. 3mm Malta: Gn1, Gn1' = first gnathopod, partly enlarged; P5–7= peraeropods 5–7.
FIGURE 3.
Dexamine filiola
sp. n.
Gn2 ov. female 3mm from Malta; Gn2 ov. female 6mm from Napoli.
FIGURE 4.
Dexamine filiola
sp. n.
fem. 6mm from Napoli: P5–7 = peraeopod 5–7 (twisted); Ep1–3 = epimeral plate 1–3; U3 = third uropod; T = telson; Us = urosome.
Sardegna, Capo
Caccia
0–5m
: 1 fem. ov.
3mm
, 1 fem. ov.
3–4mm
,
8–10 m
,
U. Schiecke
coll.
Malta
1 fem. ov.
3mm
,
3–10 m
; U. Schiecke coll. Izmir, 1 fem. ov.
4mm
, leg. KocataŞ.
Description of female (main differences to
Dexamine spinosa
given in bold letters).
Length:
3–6 mm
(vs.
D. s.
9–14 mm
).
Head:
Rostrum short, cephalic lobes triangular, acute; eyes large, reniform,
brown
or
black
(vs. whitishreddish, see photo of a living
D. spinosa
,
Fig. 1
).
A1 peduncular art 1 produced distally into acute process, art 2 twice as long as art 1. A1 clearly> A2. Mouthparts like in
Dexamine spinosa
.
Peraeon
thickened.
Coxae distally setose
(vs.
D. s.
smooth).
Cx 2–4 also facially beset with short setae.
Gn1 basis curved,
moderately setose;
propodus> carpus. Gn2> Gn1, carpus ≥ propodus.
P5–7 usually twisted,
clearly diminishing in length
, basis hind margin
moderately
(vs. densely)
setose
.
P6 hind margin straight
(vs. strongly excavate).
Pleon:
Segments 1–3 dorsally produced into backwards pointing tooth. Urosome segment 1 produced into a humped tooth, segment 3 with two crests armed with 2 spines. U1 peduncle = subequal rami; U2 outer ramus <inner one.
U3
rami
slender
, lanceolate,
irregularly
beset with spines, rami subequal.
Telson:
3–4 lateral spines (often in pairs) and one distal spine
(vs.
D. s.
2–3 single lateral ones).
Remarks.
The drawings in
Bellan-Santini, 1982
, showing material from Marseille, match this new species in the details of the setose coxae (also facially,- never mentioned in other descriptions) and the straight posterior margin of P6 basis, but the body length is told as "
9–12mm
". The colour of the eyes is given in
Lincoln (1979)
as white, in
Chevreux & Fage (1925)
as brown, in
Bellan-Santini (1982)
as red, white or black.
Etymology.
the Latin word
filia
means daughter, and
filiola
is the diminutive, "little daughter", alluding the much smaller size comparatively to the morphologically so similar species
Dexamine spinosa
(Montagu)
.