Austroarcturus foveolatus Kensley, 1975

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 : 1812

publication ID	1464-5262
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5260349
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DC5987CB-8F73-AE55-3216-FBC5FE49BC83
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Austroarcturus foveolatus Kensley, 1975
status

Treatment

Austroarcturus foveolatus Kensley, 1975 View in CoL

(figures 1D, 2, 3)

Austroarcturus foveolatus Kensley, 1975: 42–44 View in CoL , figure 3a–n; Kensley, 1978b: 23, figure 9f–g.

Material examined

Several specimens of both sexes (one male dissected), SAM A19281 . Two males, one female, NMV J47031 View Materials .

Diagnosis

Body dorsally pitted, with mid-dorsal crest most prominent on head and pereonites 4–5. Pereonites 2–5 with a laterally expanded, evenly curved margin, uninterrupted in both sexes; pereonites 6–7 and pleonites barely expanded, margin continuous. Pleonite 3 smoothly domed. Male to 7.0 mm; female to 9.0 mm.

Remarks

This, the type species, is illustrated. The dorsal crest diagnoses the species which occurs off False Bay and Still Bay, south-western and southern South Africa, at 71–200 m depth .