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Issue: Vol. 5601 No. 1: 6 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.6
Page range: 127-142
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A new species of the genus Lepechinella Stebbing, 1908 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lepechinellidae) from Japan

Faculty of Fisheries; Kagoshima University; 4-50-20 Shimoarata; Kagoshima 890-0056; Japan
Graduate School of Agriculture; Forestry and Fisheries; Kagoshima University; 4-50-20 Shimoarata; Kagoshima 890-0056; Japan
Tomakomai Experimental Forest; Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere; Hokkaido University; Takaoka; Tomakomai; Hokkaido; 053-0035; Japan
Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory; Graduate School of Science; Nagoya University; Toba; Mie 517-0004; Japan
Crustacea Taxonomy Ryukyu Trench Pacific Ocean Japan deep sea new species

Abstract

A new species of lepechinellid amphipod, Lepechinella macrospinosa sp. nov., is described from off Yakushima Island, Japan. The present new species closely resembles Lepechinella curvispinosa Pirlot, 1933 sharing strongly enlarged and backward-curved posterodorsal tooth on the pleonites 1–3. However, the present new species can be distinguished from L. curvispinosa by the longer pereopod 5 carpus, different shape of the posterodorsal tooth on pleonite 3 and urosomite 1, presence of the posteroventral tooth on the epimeral plates 1–3, and longer uropod 3 of which outer and inner rami are subequal in length. In addition, a partial DNA sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) of this species was determined for future studies.

 

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