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Issue: Vol. 2971 No. 1: 20 Jul. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-07-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2971.1.2
Page range: 17–32
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The first blind Paranthura species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Paranthuridae) from the 'El Cachucho' Marine Protected Area (Le Danois Bank, southern Bay of Biscay)

Instituto Español de Oceanografía. C.O. Santander. P. Box 240, 39080 Santander, Spain Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física. Universidad de Alcalá. 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Station Marine (UMR 5805, CNRS/UB1), 2 rue Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física. Universidad de Alcalá. 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Spain Museum of Comparative Zoology, MCZ-labs, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, US
Crustacea Isopoda Paranthuridae Paranthura new species 'El Cachucho' MPA Le Danois Bank Bay of Biscay

Abstract

A new paranthurid isopod, Paranthura santiparrai sp. nov. is described from specimens collected in the 'El Cachucho' Marine Protected Area, southern Bay of Biscay. The new species can be distinguished from all the known species of the genus Paranthura by the absence of eyes, from the native NE Atlantic species Paranthura nigropunctata and Paranthura costana by the lack of body pigmentation, antenna 1 and pereopod morphology and from the non-indigenous species Paranthura japonica (recently discovered in the Arcachon Bay) by the pleonites not fused mediodorsally. The genus Paranthura is rediagnosed to accommodate the new taxon and an identification key is provided for European species. Ecological data on the new species are presented.

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