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Epimeria (Drakepimeria) schiaparelli d'Acoz & Verheye 2017, subgen. nov.

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 (Drakepimeria) schiaparelli subgen. nov. Lörz, Maas, Linse & Fenwick, 2007

Epimeria schiaparelli Lörz, Maas, Linse & Fenwick, 2007: 25, figs 1–7.

Epimeria schiaparelli – Lörz & Coleman 2009: unnumbered photograph on p. 17.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis based on the figures of Lörz et al. (2007). Pereionites 1–2 smooth; pereionite 3 with posterior mid-dorsal bump and pair of dorsolateral protrusions; pereionites 3–7 with moderately slender mid-dorsal tooth of length increasing posteriorly and pair of dorsolateral smaller teeth; mid-dorsal tooth of pleonite 3 narrow and without median notch. Urosomite 2 with pair of small dorsolateral teeth pointing upwards. lateral carina of coxa 4 with well-developed tooth pointing backwards. Peduncle of antenna 1: article 1 with short lateral and medial teeth, with long ventral tooth reaching tip of article 2 (teeth excluded); article 2 with long lateral and medial teeth overreaching article 3; article 3 with short ventral tooth shorter than article itself.

Colour pattern

Usually whitish with irregular pale orange patches, more rarely whitish with red transverse stripes (one stripe per body segment).

Body length

30 mm.

Distribution

Western Ross Sea, 130– 350 m.

Remarks

Epimeria schiaparelli is very similar to E. corbariae sp. nov. They can be differentiated by the dorsal ornamentation of pereionite 3: a posterior bump in E. schiaparelli vs a tooth in E. corbariae sp. nov.

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 59-60, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.359, http://zenodo.org/record/3855694

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4A5A879BFFBC6844FEE7F931CA42FBA6

Cites
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.5661106 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/CB3F8F46FFADFF80FFD2FF74FB47FBD1 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2017.359 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3855694 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B663FFE3FF86687FFFF7FFE8CF17FF89 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/703F4B1F-DFAD-47DD-AEA5-9E31A1921508 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/4A5A879BFFBC6844FEE7F931CA42FBA6 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164301401 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21844/taxon/4A5A879BFFBC6844FEE7F931CA42FBA6.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Epimeriidae
Genus
Epimeria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
d'Acoz & Verheye
Species
schiaparelli
Taxonomic status
subgen. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Epimeria (Drakepimeria) schiaparelli d'Acoz & Verheye, 2017

References

  • Lorz A. - N., Maas E. W., Linse K. & Fenwick G. D. 2007. Epimeria schiaparelli sp. nov., an amphipod crustacean (family Epimeriiidae) from from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with molecular characterisation of the species complex. Zootaxa 1402: 23 - 37.
  • Lorz A. - N. & Coleman O. 2009. Living gems: jewel-like creatures from the deep. Water & Atmosphere 17 (1): 16 - 17. Available from https: // www. niwa. co. nz / sites / niwa. co. nz / files / import / attachments / gems. pdf [accessed 27 Sep. 2016].