Bathyamaryllis kapala, Lowry & Stoddart, 2002

Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2002, The Amaryllididae of Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea), Records of the Australian Museum 54, pp. 129-214 : 200-201

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2201-4349

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/783187C3-FF82-FFD5-1A15-F6229666F838

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Felipe

scientific name

Bathyamaryllis kapala
status

sp. nov.

Bathyamaryllis kapala View in CoL n.sp.

Figs. 67–69

Type material. HOLOTYPE, female, 11.5 mm, ovigerous (16 eggs), AM P36868, southeast of Broken Bay , New South Wales, Australia, 33°37'S 152°04'E to 33°39'S 152°02'E, 897–924 m, dredge, R. T. Springthorpe, 10 December 1980, FRV Kapala , stn K80-20-09. 1 GoogleMaps PARATYPE, immature, AM P36869, E of Broken Bay , NSW, Australia, 33°31'S 152°08'E to 33°33'S 152°07'E, 914 m, dredge GoogleMaps , R. T. Springthorpe , 10 December 1980, FRV Kapala , stn K80- 20-08. 3 PARATYPES (2 females and 1 immature male), AM P36870, E of Broken Bay , NSW, Australia, 33°30'S 152°09'E to 33°33'S 152°11'E, 922–1015 m, beam trawl GoogleMaps , R. T. Springthorpe , 12 February 1986, FRV Kapala , stn K86- 01-08. 1 PARATYPE, female, AM P58308, E of Broken Bay , NSW, Australia, 33°30'S 152°12'E to 33°33'S 152°09'E, 1036–1049 m, dredge GoogleMaps , R. T. Springthorpe , 12 February 1986, FRV Kapala , stn K86-01-10. 5 PARATYPES (1 ovigerous female, 4 juveniles), NMV J48797 View Materials , 54 View Materials km ESE of Nowra , NSW, Australia, 34° 52.72'S 151°15.04'E, 996 m, mud, fine sand, fine shell, epibenthic sled, G.C.B. Poore et al., 22 October 1988 GoogleMaps , RV Franklin , stn SLOPE 53 . 1 PARATYPE, NMV J48796 View Materials , 76 View Materials km S of Point Hicks , Victoria, Australia, 38°29.33'S 149°19.98'E, 1840 m, sandy mud, fine shell, epibenthic sled, G.C.B. Poore et al., 26 October 1988 GoogleMaps , RV Franklin, stn SLOPE 69 .

Type locality. Southeast of Broken Bay , NSW, Australia, Tasman Sea, 33°37'S 152°04'E GoogleMaps to 33°39'S 152°02'E, 896– 924 m depth.

Description. Based on holotype female, 11.5 mm, AM P36868. Head much deeper than long, anterior margin with notch extended into a slit; rostrum present, anteriorly rounded; eye present or apparently absent, elongate, reniform. Antenna 1 peduncular article 1 ball-shaped proximally (slightly), distal margin with large medial spine; peduncular article 2 long, length 2× breadth; flagellum without callynophore, calceoli absent. Antenna 2 flagellum about as long as that of antenna 1. Mouthpart bundle subquadrate. Mandible lacinia mobilis a stemmed distolaterally cusped blade; accessory setal row with intermediate setae; palp article 2 without posterodistal setae, article 3 without A3-seta. Maxilliped outer plate with distal margin serrate (minutely), medial margin without notch.

Gnathopod 1 carpus longer than propodus (1.3×); propodus, posterior margin with robust setae. Gnathopod 2 palm acute, with 1 lateral robust seta, 1 medial robust seta. Pereopods 3 and 4 merus and carpus without setal fringe. Pereopod 4 coxa with anterior margin slightly obtuse, posterior margin straight, anteroventral corner rounded. Pereopods 5–7 with distal articles elongate, dactyls short and slender. Pereopod 5 basis expanded posteriorly, rounded. Pereopod 7 basis subrectangular, posteroventral corner subquadrate, posteroventral margin straight.

Epimeron 3 posterior margin smooth, with notch immediately above acute posteroventral corner. Uropod 1 peduncle dorsolateral margin with 12 robust setae; outer ramus without large spines between robust setae. Uropod 2 inner ramus moderately constricted. Uropod 3 rami lanceolate; without plumose setae; outer ramus 2-articulate. Telson moderately cleft (about 35%).

Etymology. Named for the former New South Wales Fisheries Research Vessel, the FRV Kapala , which made many valuable collections of marine invertebrates off the coast of New South Wales.

Remarks. All three Indo-West Pacific species of Bathyamaryllis are very similar. Bathyamaryllis kapala can be distinguished from B. perezii by the shape of coxa 4, which has a slightly obtuse anterior margin and a straight posterior margin in B. kapala , but subparallel anterior and posterior margins in B. perezii . It can be distinguished from B. ouvea by the shape of the rostrum, which is rounded in B. kapala and truncated in B. ouvea .

Habitat. Bathyamaryllis kapala has been collected from sand and mud bottoms but its habitat is generally not known.

Distribution. Southeastern Australia, Tasman Sea; 896– 1840 m depth.

AM

Australian Museum

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

NMV

Museum Victoria

RV

Collection of Leptospira Strains

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