Joeropsis arpedes, 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 : 1431-1432

publication ID

1464-5262

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5305581

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Joeropsis arpedes
status

sp. nov.

Joeropsis arpedes View in CoL sp. nov.

(gure 6D, E)

Type material. HOLOTYPE: USNM 253214 View Materials , 1.5 mm, sta K-SEY-23, algal turf on reef crest, Mahé Island, Seychelles, 0.5 m, 25 February 1989.

Diagnosis. Rostrum wider than long, anterior margin straight. Lateral margins of cephalon entire. Pleotelson wider than median length, lateral margins bearing ve small spines on each side. Uropodal basis with mesiodistal spine. Dark purple-red pigment in band on cephalon between eyes, produced posteromedially; pereonites 3 and 6, and anterior pleotelson with transverse band of pigment.

Etymology. The speci c name, from the Latin for at or level, refers to the species’ truncate rostrum.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Joeropsididae

Genus

Joeropsis

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