Epimeria (Metepimeria) acanthurus
- 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 (Metepimeria) acanthurus (Schellenberg, 1931)
Metepimeria acanthurus Schellenberg, 1931: 162, fig. 85, pl. 1. fig. G.
Epimeria acanthurus – K.H. Barnard 1932: 176, fig. 104B, 108, pl. 1. fig. 2.
Metepimeria acanthurus – Watling & Holman 1981: 216–217, fig. 22. — Coleman 2007: 61, fig. 36, map 1 (rhomb).
‘ Epimeria inermis 1’ – Rauschert & Arntz 2015: 61, pl. 54.
non Epimeria inermis Walker, 1903: 54, pl. 10, fig. 69.
Body length22 mm (Coleman 2007).
Colour patternWhite with scarce suffusions of orange; eyes reddish (photograph of Rauschert & Arntz 2015 as ‘ Epimeria inermis 1’).
DistributionMagellanic Region: Patagonia, Falkland Islands, 27–494 m (De Broyer et al. 2007), Burdwood Bank, 296–299 m (see remarks).
RemarksThe specimen labelled ‘ Epimeria inermis 1’ in Rauschert & Arntz (2015) does not correspond to the description of E. inermis: it exhibits important differences in the shape of coxa 4, and the dorsal profiles of pleonite 3 and urosomite 1. The morphology of this specimen is more similar to E. acanthurus as illustrated by Coleman (2007), and it is therefore identified as such. Rauschert & Arntz (2015) do not indicate the collection details of their specimen, but this information was found in an early draft of their book made available to the authors: ANT XIX [obviously ANT-XIX/5], LAMPOS, station 153 [i.e., 153-1]. The coordinates of this station are: 54°32.75ʹ S 56°09.84ʹ W to 54°31.22ʹ S 56°08.93ʹ W [Burdwood Bank], 296– 299 m.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Epimeriidae
- Genus
- Epimeria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Schellenberg
- Species
- acanthurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Epimeria (Metepimeria) acanthurus (Schellenberg, 1931) sec. d'Acoz & Verheye, 2017
References
- Schellenberg A. 1931. Gammariden und Caprelliden des Magellangebietes, Sudgeorgiens und der Westantarktis. Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1903 2 (6): 1 - 290, pl. 1.
- Barnard K. H. 1932. Amphipoda. Discovery Report 5: 1 - 326, pl. 1. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 5607801 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].
- Watling L. & Holman H. 1981. Additional acanthonotozomatid, paramphitoid and stegocephalid Amphipoda from the Southern Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94 (1): 181 - 227. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34608032 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].
- Coleman C. O. 2007. Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Volume 2: Acanthonotozomellidae, Amathillopsidae, Dikwidae, Epimeriidae, Iphimediidae, Ochlesidae and Vicmusiidae. Bullelin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie / Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Biologie 77, supplement 2: 1 - 134.
- Rauschert M. & Arntz W. E. 2015. Antarctic Macrobenthos. A Field Guide of the Invertebrates Living at the Antarctic Seafloor: Arntz & Rauschert Selbstverlag, Deichweg.
- Walker A. O. 1903. Amphipoda of the " Southern Cross " Antarctic Expedition. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 29: 38 - 64, pls 7 - 11. http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31597966 [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].
- 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].