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Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-05
Page range: 133–137
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Platycuma bamberconfabulor sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cumacea: Nannastacidae) from Antarctica, with a note on the gut of Platycuma

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
Department of Biology, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu 96822, Hawaii, USA.
Crustacea Nannastacidae Platycuma Antarctic

Abstract

Platycuma bamberconfabulor sp. nov. is based on a specimen from the Ross Sea. The species can be distinguished from the other species in the genus through the combination of a laterally expanded and somewhat dorsoventrally flattened carapace, anterior margin of the carapace excavate in dorsal view, uropod peduncles less than twice as long as pleonite 6, and subequal pleonites 4 and 5.