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Issue: Vol. 1130 No. 1: 16 Feb. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-02-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1130.1.3
Page range: 43–55
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 4

Antennuloniscus alfi n. sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Haploniscidae) from the Scotia Sea, Antarctica

Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Crustacea Isopoda Asellota Haploniscidae Antennuloniscus deep sea Antarctica

Abstract

Antennuloniscus alfi n. sp. is reported from samples obtained with an epibenthic sledge in the deep sea of the Southern Ocean. The species can be recognised by its trapezoidal head, the broad and short articles 5 and 6 of the antenna and the pleotelson, which has rounded margins and two dorsal cuticular tubercles.

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