Neoarcturus oudops Barnard, 1914

Poore, G. C. B., 2003, Revision of Holidoteidae, an endemic southern African family of Crustacea, and re-appraisal of taxa previously included in its three genera (Isopoda: Valvifera), Journal of Natural History 37, pp. 1805-1846 : 1829-1830

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scientific name

Neoarcturus oudops Barnard, 1914
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Neoarcturus oudops Barnard, 1914 View in CoL

(figures 7A, 11A, B)

Neoarcturus oudops Barnard, 1914: 214–216 , pls 18C, 19B; Barnard, 1920: 397–398; Barnard, 1940: 493; Poore, 1991: 4–7, figures 1a–k, 2a–k, 3a–d.

Microarcturus oudops: Kensley, 1978a: 130–131 ; Kensley, 1978b: 28 (not figure 13a); Kensley, 1984: 252 (part), figure 19b–f, not figure a.

Material examined

Three males (two dissected), one ovigerous female, SAM A17820 View Materials . One female, SAM A39991 View Materials . One male, one female, NMV J47037 View Materials .

Diagnosis

Eyes colourless. Dorsum irregularly tuberculate, especially on transverse ridges, without dominant spines. Pereonites 2 and 3 of female with triangular lateral wings (obsolete in male); pereopods 4–7 and pleonites without lateral wings. Pleotelson apex obtuse, not apically produced as spine, posterolateral margins with well-defined triangular angular flanges. Male pleonite 2 strongly elevated as paired dorsolateral bosses, pleonite 3 with lower dorsomedial boss. Posteroventral margin of pereonite 4 of male deeply incised, with pair of tubercles on margin. Male to 6.5 mm; female

to 7.0 mm.

Remarks

Poore (1991) and Kensley (1978a, 1984) illustrated the setulose lobe of the male pleopod 1 endopod of N. oudops with an anterior row of teeth-like short setae. These seem not to be universally present in this species and an alternative figure is given here (figure 10, PL 1). The confusion of this species with N. kensleyi n. sp. was discussed by Poore (1991) and above where the new species is described. The species occurs off KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, at 650–1510 m depth.

SAM

South African Museum

NMV

Museum Victoria

PL

Západoceské muzeum v Plzni

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Holidoteidae

Genus

Neoarcturus

Loc

Neoarcturus oudops Barnard, 1914

Poore, G. C. B. 2003
2003
Loc

Microarcturus oudops

: Kensley 1978: 130 - 131
1978
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