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Issue: Vol. 88 No. 1: 24 Oct. 2002
Type: Article
Published: 2002-10-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.88.1.1
Page range: 1–36
Abstract views: 63
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New species of Nannoniscidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) and Saetoniscus n. gen. from the deep sea of the Angola Basin

Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3; 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Crustacea Regabellator abyssi n. sp. Saetoniscus meteori n. sp. et gen. n. Rapaniscus multisetosus n. sp. and Nannoniscus antennaspinis n. sp. Nannoniscidae deep sea taxonomy

Abstract

Regabellator abyssi n. sp., Saetoniscus meteori n. sp. et gen. n., Rapaniscus multisetosus n. sp. and Nannoniscus antennaspinis n. sp. are described from the Atlantic deep sea of the Angola Basin, Namibia. Sixty seven species of Nannoniscidae have been described. Forty two species including the 4 described here are known from the Atlantic Ocean. A checklist of Atlantic Nannoniscidae is provided.

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