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Issue: Vol. 4683 No. 3: 9 Oct. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.3.7
Page range: 431–438
Abstract views: 146
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of the mesopelagic isopod genus Xenuraega Tattersall, 1909 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Aegidae) from Japan, the second species in the genus

Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University, 459 Shirahama-cho, Nishimuro-gun, Wakayama 649-2211, Japan
Biodiversity & Geosciences Program, Queensland Museum, PO Box: 3300, South Brisbane BC, Queensland 4101, Australia; Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management and Water Research Group (Ecology), North West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.
Crustacea Isopoda Aegidae

Abstract

Xenuraega bythionekta sp. nov., is described from a single specimen taken off southern Japan. It is the second species of Xenuraega Tattersall, 1909, and extends the known range of the genus from North Atlantic to the northern Pacific Ocean. The species is characterized by the posteriorly narrowed pleotelson, and both uropodal rami being elongate and provided with a mass of long plumose setae. Xenuraega bythionekta sp. nov. is known only from the type locality, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan at a depth of 1178–1179 m.

 

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