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Heteromesus longiremis Hansen 1916

Description

Heteromesus longiremis Hansen, 1916

Heteromesus longiremis Hansen 1916: 68–69, pl. VI, fig. 2a–f; Gurjanova 1932: 45, tabl. XV, 55; Menzies 1962: 122, fig. 22A–B; Wolff 1962: 85, 217, 262, 275, 289; Kussakin 1988: 481–483, fig. 394–396.

Not Heteromesus longiremis.– Chardy 1974: 1549–1551, fig. 8–9.

Material examined

None, data taken from Hansen (1916).

Remarks on type material. Syntypes mentioned in original description: female fragment (3.5 mm), male fragment (3.7 mm), North Atlantic: Davis Strait, 61º50’N, 56º21’W, 1895–1896, R / V Ingolf, stn 36, 2702 m (1435 Danish fathoms). Type material was missing from ZMUC, but according to Hansen (1916), it consisted of one mutilated female without head and pereonite 1, and one mutilated male without head and pereonites 1–4.

Diagnosis

Pereonite 2 in female with median tubercle, with 1 pair of anterolateral simple spines, with no lateral spines or tubercles. Pereonite 5 in female length 4.0 width, in male length 6.2 width. Pleotelson posterolateral margin anterior to uropods without spines or tubercles. Pereopod bases without spines. Uropods length in female 0.50, in male 0.65 length of pleotelson.

Description

Body granular. Pereonite 2 in female with median tubercle, 2–3 pairs of dorsal tubercles, 1 pair of anterolateral simple spines. Pereonite 3 in female with median tubercle, 2 pairs of dorsal tubercles. Pereonites 2–3 in female with dorsal tubercles arranged in transverse row, anterolateral simple spines short, length distinctly less than length of pereonite 1. Pereonite 4 in female length 0.55 width. Pleotelson in female length 1.35 width.

Male specific characters. Pleotelson length 1.3 width. Pleopod II protopod apex rounded.

Distribution

North Atlantic: Davis Strait, 2702 m. Wolff (1962: 262) mentions 2 localities (at 698 and 2702 m); not in accordance with Hansen (1916: 69).

Remarks

Heteromesus longiremis was scored according to original description by Hansen (1916), measurements having been obtained from his illustrations. This species is poorly characterised but is distinct from other species based on the following combination of features: pereopods II– VII bases lacking spines; female pereonite 5 length 4.0 width, 6.2 in male; and male uropods being longest of any recorded species, length 0.65 pleotelson length.

Notes

Published as part of Cunha, Marina R. & Wilson, George D. F., 2006, The North Atlantic genus Heteromesus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota: Ischnomesidae), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 1192 (1192) on pages 48-49

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ischnomesidae
Genus
Heteromesus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Isopoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hansen
Species
longiremis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Heteromesus longiremis Hansen, 1916 sec. Cunha & Wilson, 2006

References

  • Hansen, H. J. (1916) Crustacea Malacostraca. III. The Danish Ingolf Expedition, 3 (5), 1 - 262, pls. 1 - 16.
  • Gurjanova, E. F. (1932) The Isopoda of the Arctic Seas. Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, 181 pp (In Russian).
  • Menzies, R. J. (1962) The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. Vema Research Series, 1, 79 - 206.
  • Wolff, T. (1962) The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. In: Woff, T., (Ed), Galathea Report (Scientific Results of The Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World 1950 - 52), vol. 6, 1 - 320 pp. Danish Science Press, Copenhagen.
  • Kussakin, O. G. (1988) Marine and brackishwater likefooted Crustacea (Isopoda) from the cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Suborder Asellota. Part 1. Families Janiridae, Santidae, Dendrotionidae, Munnidae, Paramunnidae, Haplomunnidae, Mesosignidae, Haploniscidae, Mictosomatidae, Ischnomesidae, Vol. 3, Izdatel'stvo Nauka: Leningrad, 502 pp. In Series: Skarlato, O. A. (Ed.),`Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, Izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Academii Nauk SSSR', 152. (in Russian)
  • Chardy, P. (1974) Complements a l'etude systematique des Ischnomesidae (Isopodes Asellotes) de l'Atlantique. Description de quatre especes nouvelles. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 3 e serie, Zoologie, 179 (257), 1537 - 1552.