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Issue: Vol. 1866 No. 1: 3 Sep. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-09-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1866.1.22
Page range: 482–492
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 1

Prochelator tupuhi sp. nov., the first record of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Crustacea: Isopoda) from New Zealand waters

German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg Research Institute, Biocentrum Grindel, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd., Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand Current address: Museum of Tropical Queensland, 70-102 Flinders Street, Townsville, 4810 Australia
Crustacea Isopoda Desmosomatidae Prochelator New Zealand taxonomy new species

Abstract

Prochelator tupuhi sp. nov. is the first record of the genus Prochelator Hessler, 1970 from Southern Hemisphere waters, and the first record of the family Desmosomatidae from New Zealand. The new species can be distinguished from all other species of the genus by the following characters: body elongate, without spine-like ventral elongations on pereonites 1–4, pereonite 1 as high as pereonite 5, mesial lobe of the maxilla much shorter than in the other species of the genus, reaching only half the length of the lateral lobe, carpus of pereopod 1 distinctly produced at the base of the claw, propodus broadest at the articulation to the carpus, tapering distally.

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