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Issue: Vol. 550 No. 1: 25 Jun. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-06-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.550.1.1
Page range: 1–20
Abstract views: 70
PDF downloaded: 3

Acanthocopinae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsididae) from the Southern Ocean deep sea with the description of Acanthocope eleganta sp. nov.

Institute of Marine Biology, FEB RAS, Palchevskogo 17, 690041, Vladivostok, Russia
Zoological Museum, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Crustacea Deep sea Southern Ocean taxonomy Munnopsididae Acanthocope new species

Abstract

Acanthocope eleganta sp. nov. is described from the abyssal Southern Ocean near the Southern Ocean Peninsula. The new species differs from others in the following: a slender dorsomedial spine on the pleon anteriorly, a pair of short dorsal spines and long ventral spine on each of pereonites 5 and 6; uropods half as long as the terminal spine of the pleotelson and with a minute exopod. A. annulatus Menzies, 1962 is redescribed; A. galatheae Wolff, 1962, previously known only from the Gulf of Panama and from Angola Basin, is recorded from the northwest Weddell Sea.

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