Two New Amphipods Associated with a Hermit Crab from the Kumano-nada, Central Japan (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Isaeidae, Stenothoidae)
Author
Ariyama, Hiroyuki
Osaka Museum of Natural History, Nagai Park, Higashi-Sumiyoshi, Osaka 546 - 0034, Japan
Author
Moritaki, Takeya
Toba Aquarium, 3 - 3 - 6 Toba, Toba, Mie 517 - 8517, Japan
text
Records of the Australian Museum
2023
Rec. Aust. Mus.
2023-12-06
75
4
357
370
http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1877
journal article
10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1877
2201-4349
A4D1798E-3071-4E98-A82C-A6283B30EC9E
Genus
Isaea
Milne Edwards, 1830
[Japanese name: Yadokari-yokoebi-zoku, new]
Isaea
Milne Edwards, 1830: 380
.—
Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 328
.—
Lincoln, 1979: 496
.—
Barnard & Karaman, 1991
a: 197.—
Myers & Lowry, 2003: 471
.
Type
species
.
Isaea montagui
Milne Edwards, 1830
, monotypy.
Diagnosis
. Antenna 1, peduncular article 3 0.7–1.1 times as long as article 1; accessory flagellum with 2–6 articles. Mouth parts ordinary. Coxae 1–4 long, strongly overlapping, progressively more elongate from 1 to 4, coxae 6, 7 much smaller than anterior coxae. Gnathopods subchelate, palm oblique; gnathopod 1, propodus longer than or subequal to carpus; gnathopod 2 much larger than 1, propodus dilated, longer than carpus. Pereopods prehensile, pereopods 3, 4 not glandular. Urosomites 1–3 free. Uropods 1–3 biramous, inner ramus of uropod 3 longer than or subequal to outer ramus.
Telson
fleshy, entire.
Included species
.
Isaea concinna
Gurjanova, 1938
[Sea of
Japan
and Sea of Okhotsk (
Kudrjashov, 1972
)];
I. concinnoides
sp. nov.
[Northwest Pacific];
I. elmhirsti
Patience, 1909
[Northeast Atlantic]; and
I. montagui
Milne
Edwards, 1830 [Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean (
Lincoln, 1979
)].
Remarks
. The
Isaeidae
include only two genera:
Isaea
and
Pagurisaea
Moore, 1983
.
Pagurisaea
is distinguishable from
Isaea
in the glandular pereopods 3 and 4 and the uropod 3 with shortened inner ramus (
Moore, 1983
).