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Epimeria (Urepimeria) monodon Stephensen 1947

Creators

  • 1. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Service Heritage, Rue Vautier 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & Corresponding author: cdudekem @ naturalsciences. be
  • 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational direction Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Rue Vautier 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & Email: mverheye @ naturalsciences. be

Description

Epimeria (Urepimeria) monodon Stephensen, 1947

Epimeria monodon Stephensen, 1947: 53, fig. 19.

Epimeria monodon – J.L. Barnard 1961: 103 (key). — McCain 1971: 161. — Thurston 1972: 34. — De Broyer & Klages 1991: 164 (key). — Coleman 1994: 560, 565–569, figs 9–12; 1998b: 224; 2007: 44, fig. 22a–b, colour plate 2c, map 12 (rhomb). — Watling 1981: 206. — Wakabara & Serejo 1999: 644 (key).

Material examined

SOUTHERN OCEAN: 1 exuvia, King George Island, Admiralty Bay, kept in aquarium, 14 Apr. 1992, coll. C. De Broyer (RBINS, INV. 132831); 1 exuvia, expedition ARCTOWSKI 1992, King George Island, Admiralty Bay, kept in aquarium, 1 Apr. 1992, coll. C. De Broyer (RBINS, INV. 132832); 1 exuvia, expedition ARCTOWSKI 1992, King George Island, Admiralty Bay, kept in aquarium, 16 Apr. 1992, coll. C. De Broyer (RBINS, INV. 132833); 1 exuvia, expedition ARCTOWSKI 1992, King George Island, Admiralty Bay, kept in aquarium, 30 Mar. 1992, coll. C. De Broyer (RBINS, INV. 132834); 2 specs, expedition ARCTOWSKI 1992, King George Island, Admiralty Bay, kept in aquarium, year 1992, coll. C. De Broyer (RBINS, INV. 132835).

Body length

Up to 29 mm.

Distribution

South Orkney Islands; South Shetland Islands; Palmer Archipelago; 0–15 m (De Broyer et al. 2007). Epimeria monodon was recorded from rocky intertidal communities (Aghmich et al. 2016) and was found amidst macro-algae (Richardson 1977). Thurston (1972) stated: “apparently associated with algae growing on rocks, boulder or gravel bottoms, 3–15 m ”.

Remarks

The record of E. monodon from the eastern shelf of the Weddell Sea at 254 m listed in the data compilation of De Broyer et al. (2007) falls outside of the usual geographical and bathymetric range of the species. It is considered as very suspect. It might be based on E. annabellae, which is common at such depth in the eastern Weddell Sea. It seems possible that E. monodon, which is a very shallow-water species, uses algal rafting as a method of dispersal between islands and archipelagoes. Thurston (1972) recorded a slight sexual dimorphism in the species: “the male has larger eyes and a slightly more prominent projection on pleon segment 3”.

Notes

Published as part of d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem & Verheye, Marie L., 2017, Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea), pp. 1-553 in European Journal of Taxonomy 359 on pages 158-159, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.359, http://zenodo.org/record/3855694

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Biodiversity

Family
Epimeriidae
Genus
Epimeria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stephensen
Species
monodon
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Epimeria (Urepimeria) monodon Stephensen, 1947 sec. d'Acoz & Verheye, 2017

References

  • Stephensen K. 1947. Tanaidacea, Isopoda, Amphipoda and Pycnogonida. Scientific Results of the Norwegian Antarctic Expeditions 1927 - 1928 et sqq. 2 (27): 1 - 90.
  • Barnard J. L. 1961. Gammaridean Amphipoda. Galathea Report 5: 23 - 128. Available from http: // www. zmuc. dk / inverweb / Galathea / Pdf _ filer / Volume _ 05 / galathea-vol. 05 - pp _ 023 - 128. pdf [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].
  • McCain J. C. 1971. A new deep-sea species of Epimeria (Amphipoda, Paramphithoidae) from Oregon. Crustaceana 20 (2): 159 - 166. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 156854069 X 00187
  • Thurston M. H. 1972. The Crustacea Amphipoda of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports 71: 1 - 133. Available from: http: // nora. nerc. ac. uk / 509215 / 1 / The % 20 crustacea % 20 amphipoda % 20 of % 20 Signy % 20 Island, % 20 South % 20 Orkney % 20 Islands % 20 - % 20 BAS % 20 Scientific % 20 Report % 2071. pdf [accessed 27 Sep. 2016]
  • De Broyer C. & Klages M. 1991. A new Epimeria (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Paramphithoidae) from the Weddell Sea. Antarctic Science 3 (2): 159 - 166. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0954102091000196
  • Coleman C. O. 1994. A new Epimeria species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Epimeriidae) and redescriptions of three other species in the genus from the Antarctic Ocean. Journal of Natural History 28 (3): 555 - 576. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770251
  • Watling L. 1981. Amphipods from the Northwestern Atlantic: the genera Jerbarnia, Epimeria, and Harpinia. Sarsia 66 (3): 203 - 211.
  • Wakabara Y. & Serejo C. S. 1999. Amathillopsidae and Epimeriidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from bathyal depths off the Brazilian coast. Zoosystema 21 (4): 625 - 645.
  • De Broyer C., Lowry J. K., Jazdzewski K. & Robert H. 2007. Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean with distribution and ecological data. Synopses of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean 1: 1 - 325. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels. Available from www. marinespecies. org / aphia. php? p = sourceget & id = 10098 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].
  • Aghmich A., Taboada S., Toll L. & Ballesteros M. 2016. First assessment of the rocky intertidal communities of Fildes Bay, King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Polar Biology 39: 189 - 198. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 015 - 1814 - 9
  • Richardson M. G. 1977. The ecology (including physiological aspects) of selected Antarctic marine invertebrates associated with inshore macrophytes: 1 - 137. PhD thesis, University of Durham, UK.