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Antarctodius Berge et Vader et Coleman 1998

Description

Genus Antarctodius Berge et Vader et Coleman, 1998

Antarctodius Berge, Vader and Coleman, 1998: 244 Antarctodius Coleman and Kauffeldt, 2001: 427

Type species of the genus Antarctodius antarcticus (Watling et Holman, 1981), described as Odius antacticus Watling et Holman, 1981.

Diagnosis (emended from J. Berge, W. Vader and C. O. Coleman, 1998 with remarks of C. O. Coleman and J. Kauffeldt, 2001 and with author remarks). – Body with rudimentary dorsal keel (Antarctodius antarcticus with inconspicuous keel, Antarctodius noncarinatus sp. n. without dorsal keel: see below); labrum apically cleft; mandibular body conical (not narrow conical), mandible toothed; labium long but apically truncated, covered by small setae; maxilla 1 palp powerful, 2-articulate; maxilliped palp with 4 articles; pereopod 1 subchelate, propodus with strong spine on the posterodistal corner that forms something like a chela; propodus of pereopod 2 rectangular (its proximal width subequal to the distal one), carpus longer or subequal to propodus; metasome segments 1–3 dorsally smooth or metasome 3 dorsally weekly produced; telson entire. The ancient origin of the genus Antarctodius is proved by a wide distribution – in cold waters of northern and southern hemisphere.

The new genus includes 3 species: Antarctodius antarcticus (Watling et Holman, 1981) and Antacrtodius rauscherti Coleman et Kauffeldt, 2001 from the Southern Ocean near Antarctica; Antarctodius noncarinatus, sp. n. from the Okhotsk Sea (Pacific Ocean).

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Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2010, A new species and subspecies of Ochlesidae Stebbing, 1910 (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Okhotsk Sea, pp. 35-44 in Zootaxa 2354 on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.193532

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ochlesidae
Genus
Antarctodius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Berge et Vader et Coleman
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Antarctodius Vader et, 1998 sec. Labay, 2010

References

  • Berge J., Vader, W. & Coleman, C. O. (1998) A cladistic analysis of the amphipod families Ochlesidae and Odiidae, with description of new species and genus. Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceeding of the Fourth International Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 20 - 24, 1998, Vol. 1. 239 - 265.
  • Coleman, C. O. & Kauffeldt, J. (2001) Antacrtodius rauscherti, a new species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ochlesidae) from the Antarctic Ocean. Proceeding of the Biological Society of Washington, 114 (2), 427 - 434.
  • Watling, L. & Holman, H. (1981) Additional acanthonotozomatid, paramphithoid, and stegocephalid Amphipoda from the Southern Ocean. Proceeding of the Biological Society of Washington, 94 (1), 181 - 227.