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Genus
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FF4BFF6861A86C8C" bold="true" box="[238,404,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Armatomelita</emphasis>
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Cr 1434.
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Cr 1436.
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locality: Aniva Bay (Sea of Okhotsk) (
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species.
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FF62FE9B61066D40" bold="true" box="[199,314,356,381]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. Pereon segment 7 with medial dorsal tooth and with two accessory teeth on each side. Pleon segments 13 with medial dorsal tooth and with three accessory teeth on each side. Urosome segment 1, mediodorsal vertical tooth with 2 accessory teeth, one in front of another on each side. Urosome 2 with dorsolateral pairs of teeth each astride single simple cuspidate seta (Watling
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II.A.3) (Watling 1989). Head, anterior lobe rounded, lower margin with small accessory processes; inferior antennal sinus narrowly notched. Antenna 1 regular, antenna 2 much shorter than antenna 1.
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Mouthparts regular. Upper lip shallow notched. Lower lip regular, inner lobes well developed. Mandible, raker setae row with numerouse blades (810); left lacinia 6-dentate, right lacinia 5 dentate; palp segment 3 subequal 2; segment 1 short, with acute medial process. Maxilla 1, inner plate triangular, tip not attenuated, inner margin 8 setose; outer plate with 9 apical tooth setae (Watling
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<date id="8708103BFFD12C40FC86FD57636F6EFD" box="[803,851,680,704]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">III.1</date>
) (Watling 1989); palp segment 1 with strong lateral setae; segment 2 moderately expanded distally. Maxilla 2, inner plate, facial setae row not reduced, submarginal. Maxilliped, outer plate medium large; palp segment 2 slightly broadened; dactylus medium.
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<paragraph id="F30936FBFFD12C40FF62FCEB62336870" blockId="36.[151,1437,319,2037]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Coxal plates 14 medium to shallow, 13 cuspate behind. Coxa 1 slightly expanded distally; coxa 4 excavate behind, not deeper than 3. Pereopod 1 small, without sexually dimorphism; basis, antero-distal setae rare; merus with two rows of short setae along all posterior margin, that are connected at the proximal and distal points of posterior margin; carpus elongate, shallow; propodus relatively narrow, shorter than carpus. Pereopod 2 (male), carpus short, hind lobe narrow, deep, apex (margin) setose; propodus large, slightly broadening distally, palm oblique convex, with distinct hinge tooth, inner face with submarginal postero-distal setae cluster, posterior margin strongly setose (11 clusters); dactylus rarely setose anteriorly, tip rounded; in female, carpus relatively long, subequal to propodus; propodus relatively large (smaller than in male), slightly narrowing distally, palm regularly convex, with postero-distal tooth.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F30936FBFFD12C40FF62FBA762FA6885" blockId="36.[151,1437,319,2037]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Coxa 6 (male and female), anterior lobe shallow. Pereopod 4 subequal to 3. Pereopod 5, basis not grossly smaller than in 6 and 7; in all, bases regularly expanded, hind lobes normal; segment 4 slightly broadened; distal segments regular; dactyls typically medium short.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F30936FBFFD12C40FF62FB3B63A46950" blockId="36.[151,1437,319,2037]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Pleon plates 1 and 2, hind corners squarish, minutely acuminate; pleon plate 3, hind corner medially produced, acute, lower margin not serrate. Uropod 1, peduncle with distolateral cuspidate setae; rami sublinear, with simple cuspidate setae, often shorter than peduncle. Uropod 2, rami slightly longer than peduncle, outer ramus the shorter. Uropod 3, outer ramus not elongate, terminal segment distinct. Telson lobes regular, separated almost to base, marginal cuspidate setae subapical, set in lateral and medial notches.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F30936FBFFD12C40FF62FA8863DA69AD" blockId="36.[151,1437,319,2037]" box="[199,998,1399,1424]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Coxal gills 25 large, 6 distinctly smallest. Brood plates suboval, large.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F30936FBFFD12C40FF62FA63616F6A78" blockId="36.[151,1437,319,2037]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">
<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FF62FA6361556988" bold="true" box="[199,361,1436,1461]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Relationships</emphasis>
: This genus belongs clearly in the
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s. str. because of its strongly elongated outer ramus of uropod 3 and well-developed inner lobes of labium. The strongly inaequiramous uropod 3, with the inner ramus reduced to a scale and article 2 of the outer ramous very short, combined with a normal mandible palp and the presence of dorsal teeth on the pleon, characterizes the genus as a member of the
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<collectingCountry id="8BA1766BFFD12C40FBC1F9F764916A1D" box="[1124,1197,1544,1568]" name="Malta" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Melita</collectingCountry>
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group (by Jarrett &amp; Bousfield 1996).
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In the key to the
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FE2CF9AF61EE6A55" box="[393,466,1616,1640]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">
<collectingCountry id="8BA1766BFFD12C40FE2CF9AF61EE6A55" box="[393,466,1616,1640]" name="Malta" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Melita</collectingCountry>
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group by Jarrett and Bousfield (1996, p. 7) with addition of Tandberg with coauthors (2011),
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FF56F98B61B16AB1" box="[243,397,1652,1676]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Armatomelita</emphasis>
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keys out together with the
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FD73F98B63516AB1" box="[726,877,1652,1676]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Abludomelita</emphasis>
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complex. It differs, however, from
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FAB1F98B65A76AB1" box="[1300,1435,1652,1676]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Desdimelita</emphasis>
Jarret &amp; Bousfield, 1996
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FE1BF96762086A8D" box="[446,564,1688,1712]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Melitoides</emphasis>
Gurjanova, 1934
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FC9FF96763FF6A8D" box="[826,963,1688,1712]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Quasimelita</emphasis>
Jarret &amp; Bousfield, 1996
</taxonomicName>
by the presence of dorsal teeth on the pereosome and metasome, from
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FD5DF94263436AE9" box="[760,895,1725,1748]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Megamoera</emphasis>
Bate, 1862
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, i. a., by the presence of dorsal teeth on the pereosome and by the presence of two rows of short setae along all posterior margin of merus of pereopod 1 (in other genera only a small spot of short setae in the distal part of posterior margin of merus is observed), by the form of brood plates (oval, large, not linear and short), from
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FCD7F8D763CF6B7D" box="[882,1011,1832,1856]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Exitomelita</emphasis>
Tandberg
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et al, 2011 differs by the presence of dorsal teeth on the pereosome and by a different telson, and from
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FBA1F8B364A76B59" box="[1028,1179,1868,1892]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Abludomelita</emphasis>
Karaman, 1981
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by the presence of dorsal teeth on the pereosome and by the different proportions of pereopods 1 and 2.
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FF62F86B61746B90" bold="true" box="[199,328,1940,1965]" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Etymology</emphasis>
: The name
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FE74F86B62576B91" box="[465,619,1940,1964]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Armatomelita</emphasis>
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is based on the Latin word “armatus” (armed) combined with the older genus name
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<collectingCountry id="8BA1766BFFD12C40FE87F84761576BED" box="[290,363,1976,2000]" name="Malta" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">Melita</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. This is because this new genus has a dorsal armament on pereon, pleon and urosome segments, in addition to its close relation to the
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<emphasis id="C1C2EAE9FFD12C40FD9DF82362BD6BC9" box="[568,641,2012,2036]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="101">
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</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group. The name is feminine in gender.
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