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Issue: Vol. 2096 No. 1: 11 May. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-05-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2096.1.24
Page range: 395–412
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 42

Holodentata gen. nov. (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae) with a description of two new species: H. caeca and H. triangulata from the Southern Ocean

Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Crustacea Isopoda Holodentata Ross Sea Powell Basin Southern Ocean taxonomy new genus new species

Abstract

A new genus of Paramunnidae, Holodentata (type species: Paramunna gaussi Vanhöffen, 1914) is erected. The new genus comprises two new species: H. caeca, from the deep Weddell Sea and H. triangulata, from the Ross Sea. The new genus is distinguished by the following characters: article 3 of the antenna short and with strong denticles, mandible palp absent, article 2 of maxilliped palp longest, coxal plates visible in dorsal view in all pereonites, pleotelson broad and laterally denticulated.

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