Maeridae from the Indo-Pacific: Elasmopus, Leeuwinella gen. nov., Maeropsis, Pseudelasmopus and Quadrimaera (Amphipoda: Crustacea)
Author
Hughes, Lauren E.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4059
2
201
256
journal article
39226
10.11646/zootaxa.4059.2.1
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1175-5326
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Elasmopus coxacallus
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1–3
)
Type
material.
Holotype
male,
4.9 mm
, dissected, 4 slides, AM P.81856, dive site ‘Winter Wall’, near Horsburgh
Island
,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
,
12°05'15"S
,
96°50'14"E
,
9.5 m
, rubble under plate coral,
12 October 2008
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 835.
Paratype
female,
5 mm
, dissected, 4 slides, AM P.81857, dive site ‘Winter Wall’, near Horsburgh
Island
,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
,
12°05'15"S
,
96°50'14"E
,
9 m
, rubble,
12 October 2008
, coll. K.B. Attwood, MI WA 834.
Type
locality.
Near Horsburgh
Island
,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
, Indian Ocean
12°05'15"S
,
96°50'14"E
.
Etymology.
Derived from the Greek ‘kallus’, meaning beauty, for the coxa 7 which has a distinctive castelloserrate posterior margin.
FIGURE 1.
Elasmopus coxacallus
sp. nov.
paratype female, 4.9 mm, habitus, AM P.81856, Horsburgh Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean.
Description.
Of
holotype
male,
4.9 mm
, AM P.81856.
Head.
Eyes
ovate; lateral cephalic lobe broad, truncated, apically rounded, anteroventral margin with notch/ slit, corner rounded.
Antenna 1
longer than antenna 2; peduncular
article 1
shorter than article 2,
without robust setae along posterior margin
; peduncular article 2 longer than article 3; flagellum articles as long as broad, with 12 articles; accessory flagellum minute, 3-articulate.
Antenna 2
peduncular article 2 cone gland reaching end of peduncular article 3; peduncular article 4 subequal to article 5; flagellum with 8 articles.
Mandible
incisor cuspidate; accessory setal row with 4 setae; molar well-developed, triturative; palp well-developed, 3-articulate; article 1 twice as long as broad, shorter than article 2; article 2 longer than article 3 with many slender setae;
article 3
strongly falcate,
short, 2.1 as long as broad,
longer than article 1, with apical setae and a comb of short robust setae along anterodistal margin.
Lower lip
inner lobes present,
outer lobes with 1 pair of ducts
, mandibular lobes apically subacute.
Maxilla 1
inner plate subquadrate, with 2 apical plumose setae.
Maxilliped
palp propodus with small distomedial flap.
Pereon
.
Gnathopod 1
coxa anterior margin straight, anteroventral corner produced, rounded; merus without posterodistal tooth;
carpus
1.5 as long as broad, shorter than propodus, length 1.1 propodus,
with long slender setae covering surface
;
propodus medial surface setal comb absent
,
palm
subacute, convex, entire, lined with robust setae,
defined by posterodistal corner with 1 long robust seta
.
Gnathopod 2
sexually dimorphic; subchelate; basis slender, anterodistal corner subquadrate; merus with subquadrate distoventral corner; carpus compressed, lobate, projecting between merus and propodus, length 0.9 breadth;
propodus
expanded,
with