The Cumacean Dimorphostylis elegans Gamô, 1960 (Crustacea), D. bathyelegans n. sp. and D. brevicarpus n. sp. from Japan
Author
Akiyama, Tadashi
text
Zootaxa
2011
2994
45
59
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.200637
c36dec4d-ccab-45a1-8b9a-8943e2dd52e6
1175-5326
200637
Dimorphostylis
sp.
(
Fig. 4
)
Material examined.
1 preparatory female,
5.3 mm
, dissected (NSMT-Cr 21690), off Kii Peninsula, 33˚27.01´N, 135˚34.15´E,
411–450 m
(KT-05-30, St. SS-1),
25 November 2005
; 1 young male,
3.8 mm
(NSMT-Cr 21691), south of Omae-zaki, Honshu Island, 34˚17.55´N, 138˚14.46´E,
443.4 m
(KT-04-6, St. KS-2-1),
30 April 2004
.
Remarks.
The female specimen, similar to
Dimorphostylis elegans
, is characterized by (1) the carapace being furnished with 4 horns on anterior and posterior end of dorso-lateral ridges (
Fig. 4
A, B), (2) uropod peduncle nearly 3 times long as the endopod (
Fig. 4
C). A sediment sample (KT-04-6, St. KS-2-1) included a young male with the horny carapace and a preparatory female of
D. elegans
with the normal shape of carapace. Although the other morphological characters of the female specimen agree with
D. elegans
, the horny carapace can not be explained as morphological variation.