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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D45EB52FF22864E3F5A9D26" bold="true" box="[151,280,1375,1401]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="556">Microcope</emphasis>
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species
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D45EB52FE8C86923FA69DC3" box="[313,484,1411,1436]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="556">M. denticulata</emphasis>
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Species included:
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,
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and
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D45EB52FC0086C23A5F9DB3" box="[949,1053,1491,1516]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="556">M. ovata</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D45EB52FF7386EA3F0F9E4B" box="[198,333,1531,1556]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="556">Etymology:</emphasis>
The name refers to the minute size in combination with the former generic name of the first species of the genus.
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D45EB52FF73855A3F079E3B" box="[198,325,1611,1636]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="556">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Head short, not visible, hidden under anterior transparent flange of pereonite 1; rostrum absent, antennulae inserted closely to each other; frons high, triangular; mouthfield narrow, protruded ventrally. Pereonites 1 and 2 longer than pereonites 3 and 4. Natasome larger than ambulosome, with continuous oval configuration, pereonites 57 fused dorsomedially, dorsolateral articulations short, about half of natasome height, pereonite 5 longer laterally than combined pereonites 6 and 7, pereonite 7 shortest; pleotelson broader than long, subtriangular, uropods inserted ventrally, anus separated from pleopodal cavity by flattened lengthy space, not covered by operculum.
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article 1 about as long as wide, with narrow triangular distomedial lobe, article 3 subequal in length to article 2. Mandible molar process cylindrical, elongate, longer than condyle; palp strong, subequal or longer than mandibular body. Maxilliped epipod about as long as basis, elongate triangular. Pereopods 14 basis subequal in length, pereopods 24 with conspicuous difference between bulky basisischium part and slender carpusdactylus part. Pereopods 57 similar in shape and size, carpi and propodi moderately expanded (propodi smaller), dactyli slender, almost as long as propodi. Female pleopod 2 ovoid, slightly bulging proximomedially, flattened distally, with dense row of long marginal setae, distal margin truncate.
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pleopod I distolateral lobes pointed, shorter and narrower than rounded distomedial lobes; pleopod 2 protopod slender, length about 4 times width, stylet length 0.8 protopod length, exopod stout. Pleopod 3 endopod distal half almost twice as broad as narrow basal half, distal plumose setae longer than endopod; exopod about as wide and 1.5 as long as endopod, distal seta tiny. Uropod protopod with medial extension, rami inserted in midlength of lateral margin, endopod distinctly longer and broader than exopod.
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D46EB51FF7382C93C5C99AE" box="[198,542,472,497]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="557">Additional description. Body</emphasis>
highest at ambulosome, head length about 0.2 width, frontal margin with short angled medial prominences, without rostrum, frons triangular, higher than dorsal part of head and clypeus and labrum together, acute anterior, with small medial convexity; clypeus 1.8 as wide and as long as labrum. Pereonites 14 tightly articulated, gradually broadening from 1 to 4, 1 and 2 distinctly longer than 3 and 4; anterior flanges overhanging posterior section of preceding segment; pereonites 24 lateral margins sinuate, anterolateral projections tipped with stout seta; coxae with anterior lobe, emerging behind the anterolateral projections of pereonite. Pereonites 57 dorsomedially fused without sutures, ventrally with sutures, ventrolateral margins rounded, dorsolateral articulations extended posteriorly. Pleonite 1 narrow stripe, pleotelson with ventrolateral row of dense setae, posterior margin rounded.
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D46EB51FF7380513F7D9B06" box="[198,319,832,857]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="557">Antennula</emphasis>
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article 1 distomedial triangular lobe truncate distally. Mandibular spine row with few spines, molar process more than twice as long as condyle, cylindrical, truncated distally, ventral margin of triturative surface with row of spines and stiff setae; palp strong, not shorter than body, article 3 relatively large, 0.4 as long as longest article 2. Maxilliped epipod elongated, subequal to basis, length about 3 times width, proximal third of lateral margin rounded, slightly protruding; articles 2 and 3 of maxilliped palp expanded, article 3 medial margin dentate, medial lobe of article 4 convergent, with broad basis.
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: pereopod 1 shortest, pereopods 3 and 4 longest, about 1.6 as long as pereopod 1; basis 1 most slender, basis 4 most stout; ischium and merus of pereopods 3 and 4 longer and stouter than those of pereopod 2, of the same width, carpi of pereopods 24 of the same width, increasing in length from 2 to 4; propodi increasing in length and decreasing in width from 2 to 4. Pereopods 57: pereopod 6 longest, pereopod 7 shortest; pereopod 5 with shortest and stoutest basis-ischium part and narrowest carpus, pereopod 7 with most elongate basisischium, relatively broad and short carpus and long propodus; propodi inserted from distoventral side of carpi more ventrally than on usual swimming paddle-like pereopods; carpi and propodi elongate oval, with 3 different
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of setae: usual plumose setae on proximal half of articles, stout plumose setae with short setulae more distally and spine-like stout unequal bifid setae on distal third of articles.
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D46EB51FF7386893FE69DEE" box="[198,420,1432,1457]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="557">Female operculum</emphasis>
ovoid, proximomedial part slightly bulging, distal half flattened, with dense row of plumose whip marginal setae, distal margin truncate, with additional submarginal setae.
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pleopods 1 and 2 covering pleopodal cavity tightly. Pleopod 1 with parallel sides, distal part with lateral setae; distolateral lobes pointed and curving slight toward midline, slightly shorter and clearly narrower than rounded distomedial lobes. Pleopod 2 protopod elongate, lateral margin with long plumose setae; endopod and exopod inserting from distal third of protopod; stylet approximately 0.8 as long as protopod length. Pleopod 3 endopod with 3 plumose distal setae, two of them inserting closely to each other laterally, third seta inserted at distance medially; exopod semicircular, about as wide and 1.5 longer than endopod, with thin lateral setae and tiny distal seta. Pleopod 4 exopod equal in length and half as wide as endopod, with long plumose seta, which is equal in length to plumose setae on pleopod 3. Uropod protopod with row of ventral long setae along lateral margin, endopod slightly shorter than protopod, and longer than exopod.
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D46EB51FF7384413F779F36" box="[198,309,1872,1897]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="557">Remarks.</emphasis>
In the dorsal view of the
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of
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(1970: 326, Fig 14) drew a head in front of pereonite 1, which is most likely not a head, but an anterior flange of pereonite 1, as can be seen in both of the new species described here. Birstein also drew a complete suture between pereonites 6 and 7. Yet, in all studied specimens of the new species this line coincides with the border of the pereopod 7 muscle tissue, which is visible through the integument. At first glance,
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illustrated by Birstein resembles small lipomerinas, e.g.. some species of
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or
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FC3783D13DB09886" box="[898,1010,192,217]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Lionectes</emphasis>
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, due to its small oval body (
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), lack of rostrum and reduced pereonite 7. In contrast to the
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, though, the new genus has fused pereonites 5 and 6, a smaller and flattened female operculum, which does not cover the anus, and a different shape and position of the uropods; pereopod 7 is not reduced and similar to pereopods 5 and 6.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C30517848D47EB50FF7382713A779B05" pageId="3" pageNumber="558" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="8BA0440F8D47EB50FF7382713B4499AD" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,1378]" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FF7382713F069926" box="[198,324,352,377]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Microcope</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25825668D47EB50FEF882713FF89925" box="[333,442,352,378]" pageId="3" pageNumber="558" rank="genus">gen. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
superficially resembles some
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, especially some species of
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FABB82713BD99926" box="[1294,1435,352,377]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Disconectes</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FDB382993CC999FE" box="[518,651,392,417]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Baeonectes</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8E39FE8D47EB50FD2182993D7799FD" author="Wilson" box="[660,821,392,418]" pageId="3" pageNumber="574" refString="Wilson, G. D. (1982) Two new natatory asellote isopods (Crustacea) from San Juan Archipelago, Baeonectes improvisus n. gen. n. sp. and Acanthamunnopsis milleri n. sp., with a revised description of A. hystrix Schultz. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 60 (12), 3332 - 3343." type="journal article" year="1982">Wilson, 1982</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, in possessing a broad body with enlarged rounded natasome, fused natasomal pereonites and similar mouthparts. Yet, it cannot be assigned to the
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due to the lack of rostrum, different shape and size of opercular pleopods, and modified uropods.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA0440F8D47EB50FF1381113A779B05" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,1378]" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">
The new genus resembles
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in having similar shape and position of the basal articles of antennulae, narrow mouthfield that is protruded ventrally, similar morphology of pereopods 14, the extended anterior flange of pereonites 1 and 2, sinuate lateral margin of pereonites 14 with coxal lobes emerging behind anterolateral projections of pereonites, the protopod of the uropod with a medial extension and the arrangement of the ventral side of pleotelson.
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FDDE81B13CAB9AE6" box="[619,745,672,697]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Microcope</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25825668D47EB50FD4781B13D229AE5" box="[754,864,672,698]" pageId="3" pageNumber="558" rank="genus">gen. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
differs from existing genera of
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C1F3F8C8D47EB50FF2281D93C1D9ABD" ID-CoL="7NQQ2" authority="Hessler and Thistle, 1975" authorityName="Hessler and Thistle" authorityYear="1975" box="[151,607,712,738]" class="Malacostraca" family="Munnopsidae" genus="Betamorpha" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FF2281D93F6A9ABE" box="[151,296,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Betamorpha</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8E39FE8D47EB50FE8581D93C1D9ABD" author="Hessler" box="[304,607,712,738]" pageId="3" pageNumber="573" refString="Hessler, R. R. &amp; Thistle, D. (1975) On the place of origin of deep-sea isopods. Marine Biology, 32, 155 - 165." type="journal article" year="1975">Hessler and Thistle, 1975</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FD2C81D93D419ABE" box="[665,771,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Amuletta</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8E39FE8D47EB50FCBE81D93A759ABD" author="Wilson" box="[779,1079,712,738]" pageId="3" pageNumber="574" refString="Wilson, G. D. &amp; Thistle, D. (1985) Amuletta, new genus for Ilyarachna abyssorum Richardson, 1911 (Isopoda: Asellota: Eurycopidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 5 (2), 350 - 360." type="journal article" year="1985">Wilson and Thistle, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, by dorsomedially fused natasomal pereonites (the
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have full dorsal articulations); flattened female pleopod 2 without medial keel, which is typical for
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; different arrangement of pleopods 3 and 4, and elongated oval carpi of pereopods 57, which are broad and triangular in
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.
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<subSubSection id="C30517848D47EB50FF7380793EB79C9D" pageId="3" pageNumber="558" type="description">
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Some characters of the new genus are also common for species of
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, e.g.
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FB5C80793B0B9BDE" box="[1257,1353,872,897]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Bellibos</emphasis>
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, such as fused pereonites 57, shape and position of the operculum in both sexes, which occupies about half of the ventral surface of pleotelson, broad and flattened bridge between the pleopodal cavity and anal operculum with posterior row of long setae. The
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is distinguished by many autapomorphies such as narrow body, reduced natasome and nearly tubular basal articles of antennulae, and cannot be considered as a close relative of
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FD3987213D489C16" box="[652,778,1072,1097]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Microcope</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8BA0440F8D47EB50FF0787493EB79C9D" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,1378]" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">
Thus in spite of the above mentioned similarities,
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FCBC87493DC59C2E" box="[777,903,1112,1137]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Microcope</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25825668D47EB50FC2587493DBE9C2D" box="[912,1020,1112,1138]" pageId="3" pageNumber="558" rank="genus">gen. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
cannot be placed into any existing subfamily and remains
<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FE0487913C1F9CC6" box="[433,605,1152,1177]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">incertae sedis.</emphasis>
Distribution of characters in some munnopsid genera is presented in Table 1.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C30517848D47EB50FF7387C13F919D3D" pageId="3" pageNumber="558" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BA0440F8D47EB50FF7387C13F919D3D" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,1378]" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">
<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FF7387C13F1F9CB6" box="[198,349,1232,1257]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Distribution.</emphasis>
The species of the genus
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<emphasis id="B96B981D8D47EB50FD2D87C13D549CB6" box="[664,790,1232,1257]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="558">Microcope</emphasis>
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were found in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench (northwestern Pacific), and in the Southern Hemisphere, i.e. in the south-eastern Atlantic (Cape Basin) and Southern Ocean (
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and Bellingshausen seas, west of the South
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). The depth ranged between 2014 and
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.
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