Leontocaris alexander Poore 2009

Ahyong, Shane T., 2010, New species and new records of Caridea (Hippolytidae: Pasiphaeidae) from New Zealand *, Zootaxa 2372 (1), pp. 341-357 : 346

Leontocaris alexander Poore 2009

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Leontocaris alexander Poore 2009: 958–964 , figs. 2–4 [type locality: Seamount Hill U, Tasmania, Australia, 44°19.6’S, 147°10.8’E,].

Material examined. Chatham Rise: NIWA 33119, 1 damaged ov. female (tcl 14.3 mm, cl 6.8 mm), 42°56.80–56.71’S, 174°28.56–27.87’E, 950–971 m, with hydrozoans and anthozoan corals, TAN0705/291, 28.IV.2007.

Remarks. Poore (2009) recently described L. alexander from seamounts off south-eastern Tasmania (1050–1300 m) and is here recorded from New Zealand for the first time. It differs from the type description in having a shorter rostrum (1.1 cl. versus 1.7–1.9), though the rostral apex appears to be regenerating after damage. The major pereopod 2 is on the right.

Distribution. South-eastern Tasmania and now from the Chatham Rise, New Zealand; 950–1300 m.

Figures

FIGURE 4. A–B, Leontocaris amplectipes Bruce, 1990, carapace, male (cl 8.5 mm) (NIWA 13678), female (cl 6.8 mm) (NIWA 13677). C, Leontocaris alexander Poore, 2009, carapace, ov. female (cl 6.8 mm) (NIWA 33119). D, Leontocaris yarramundi Taylor & Poore, 1998, carapace, male (cl 7.6 mm) (NIWA 29687). E, Lysmata vittata (Stimpson, 1860), carapace, sex indet., tcl 5.7 mm (NIWA (MITS) 5523). F, Merhippolyte chacei Kensley, Griffin & Tranter, 1987, carapace, ov. female (cl 8.9 mm) (NIWA 33172). G–H, Alainopasiphaea australis (Hanamura, 1989), anterior carapace, female (tcl 16.8 mm), female (16.9 mm), both NIWA 33095. Scale: A–D, F–H = 2.0 mm; E = 1.0 mm.