Description of four new species from the Haploniscus unicornis Menzies, 1956 complex (Isopoda: Asellota: Haploniscidae)
Author
Brökeland, Wiebke
text
Zootaxa
2010
2536
1
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.196630
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1175-5326
196630
Haploniscus unicornis
Menzies, 1956
(
Fig. 15
)
Synonymy:
Haploniscus unicornis
Menzies, 1956
: 8
, fig. 3;
Menzies, 1962
: 96, fig. 6E–G.
Holotype
:
female stage V,
1.7 mm
, slightly damaged.
AMNH
cat. no. 11759, coll: RV
Vema
,
12 November 1956
, V-7-1, north rim,
Puerto Rico
Trench, Atlantic,
20°32.2’ N
60°28.1’ W
,
4983–5001m
depth.
Description
(
holotype
female).
Body
(
Fig. 15
A, B, E) oval, length about 2.8 width. Head length 0.6 width. Rostrum damaged. Lateral margins of pereonites damaged, pereonites 3–6 broadest, body tapering anteriorly and posteriorly. Posterior angles of pereonites 3–7 and anterior angles of pereonites 3–4 acute; posterior part of pereonite 7 as wide as basis of pleotelson, resulting in smooth outline of posterior body in dorsal view. Pleotelson length 0.35 body length, 1.2 width, lateral margins tapering posteriorly; pleotelson process length 0.1 pleotelson length, 1.2 width.
FIGURE 15.
Haploniscus unicornis
Menzies, 1956
, holotype, female stage V, AMNH cat. no. 11759. A, habitus, lateral view; B, habitus, dorsal view; C, antenna 2, articles 2–4; D, mandibular palp, articles 2 and 3; E, posterior body, ventral view. Scale bars 1 mm for A,B and E and 0.1 mm for C and D.
Antenna 2
(
Fig. 15
C) peduncular article 3 length about 1.4 width, dorsal tooth shorter than article width; article 4 0.7 article 3 length, 1.1 width; distal articles missing.
Maxilliped
with 3 retinacula (contrary to Menzies’ original description).
Distribution.
Known from the
type
locality in the
Puerto Rico
Trench and from South of the Azores (
Chardy 1974; see discussion
).