Debroyerella Lowry & Kilgallen, 2015, gen. nov.
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Description
Genus Debroyerella gen. nov.
Type species. Cheirimedon similis Thurston, 1974, by present designation.
Included species. Debroyerella includes 3 species: D. fougneri (Walker, 1903); D. similis (Thurston, 1974); D. solidus (Andres, 1986).
Etymology. Named for our friend Claude De Broyer in recognition of his life-long contribution to Antarctic amphipod biology. Gender feminine.
Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 peduncle article 1 long (more than twice as long as broad); flagellum with weak 1-field callynophore, or callynophore absent. Mandible molar columnar, with fully triturating oval surface; palp attached midway. Maxilliped outer plate very small, not reaching article 3 of palp. Gnathopod 1 subchelate, coxa large, almost as large as coxa 2, not tapering distally, anterior margin slightly concave; carpus compressed. Telson moderately cleft.
Remarks. With a subchelate gnathopod 1, displaying a compressed carpus and large propodus, Debroyerella is very similar to Abyssorchomene De Broyer, 1984 and Koroga Holmes, 1908. Koroga differs in having a short (less than 1.5 × longer than broad) antenna 1 peduncle article 1, a well-developed 2-field callynophore, a mandible molar that forms a setose tongue, and a notched telson. Species of Abyssorchomene also have a short antenna 1 peduncle article 1 and strong 2-field callynophore.
Distribution. Antarctica.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Uristidae
- Genus
- Debroyerella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Debroyerella Lowry & Kilgallen, 2015
References
- Thurston, M. H. (1974) Crustacea Amphipoda from Graham Land and the Scotia Arc, collected by Operation Tabarin and the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1944 - 59. British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports, 85, 1 - 89.
- Walker, A. O. (1903) Amphipoda of the ' Southern Cross' Antarctic Expedition. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 29, 38 - 64, pls. 37 - 11.
- Andres, H. G. (1986) Atylopsis procerus sp. n. und Cheirimedon solidus sp. n. aus der Weddell See sowie Anmerkungen zu Orchomenella pinguides Walker, 1903. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 83, 117 - 130.
- De Broyer, C. (1984) Evolution du complexe Orchomene Boeck (Amphipoda Lysianassidae). Annales de la Societe Royale Zoologique de Belgique, 114, 197 - 198.
- Holmes, S. J. (1908) The Amphipoda collected by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer " Albatross " off the west coast of North America, in 1903 and 1904, with descriptions of a new family and several new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 35, 489 - 543. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.35 - 1654.489