Stenetrium zanzibarica, Kensley & Schotte, 2002

Kensley, B & Schotte, M, 2002, New species and records of Asellota from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda), Journal of Natural History 36, pp. 1421-1461 : 1455

Stenetrium zanzibarica sp. nov.

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Type material. HOLOTYPE: ZMUC, 6.5 mm, sta CRU-1893, Murogo Reef , Zanzibar, 14 m, 20 September 1995 . PARATYPES: ZMUC, one ovigerous 5.0 mm, two, two juveniles, same data as holotype ; USNM 253293 , one 4.5 mm, three ovigerous 4.5–5.1 mm, one, two juveniles, sta CRU-1896, sand on Bawe Island reef, Zanzibar, 10 m, 21 September 1995 .

Other material. ZMUC, one, one, sta CRU-1891, coral from Murogo Reef , Zanzibar, 16 m, 20 September 1995 ; ZMUC, two, sta CRU-1902, oV Matemwe , Mnemba Island, Zanzibar, 9ss13¾S, 35ss10¾E, 25 m, 25 September 1995 ; ZMUC, one ovigerous, one, sta CRU-1903, oV Matemwe , Mnemba Island, Zanzibar, 15 m, 25 September 1995 ; ZMUC, two ovigerous 5.0– 5.2 mm, three, ve juveniles, sta CRU-1926, Murogo Reef , Zanzibar, 9 m, 20 September 1995 ; ZMUC, one ovigerous

5.0 mm, sta CRU-1927, Murogo Reef , Zanzibar, 8 m, 20 September 1995 .

Diagnosis. Cephalon with anterolateral and antennal teeth low; rostrum basally wider than long, anterior margin straight. Eyes reniform. Red-brown scattered reticulation on cephalon and pereonites, and over most of dorsum of pleotelson. Pereopod 1 of male, setose carpus produced posterodistally into broadly rounded lobe reaching midlength of posterior margin of propodus; latter longer than wide, strongly setose on mesial surface, with robust seta demarcating palm, latter having ve triangular teeth; dactylus having about 19 small setae on cutting margin. Operculum of female roughly pentagonal, about 1.6 times longer than basal width.

Etymology. The species is named for the type locality, Zanzibar Island.