Stenetrium assumentum, 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 : 1452-1453

publication ID

1464-5262

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5305655

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FCF375-FF96-D37C-86BA-2E28E542FABA

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scientific name

Stenetrium assumentum
status

sp. nov.

Stenetrium assumentum View in CoL sp. nov.

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Type material. HOLOTYPE: ZMUC, 4.9 mm, sta CRU-1904, intertidal reef at, Bawe Island , Zanzibar, 26 September 1995 . PARATYPES: ZMUC, two 3.5–4.8 mm, one ovigerous 6.0 mm , USNM 253292 View Materials , one 4.5 mm, sta CRU-1890, coral heads in sand, Changuu Island , Zanzibar, 7 m, 19 September 1995 .

Diagnosis. Cephalon with strong anterolateral and antennal teeth; rostrum basally broader than long, anterior margin straight. Eyes reniform. Scattered reticulation of red-brown pigment on cephalon, pereonites and pleotelson, latter with large strongly pigmented middorsal patch at base. Pereopod 1 of male, carpus not produced posterodistally; propodus expanded, with strong tooth demarcating palm, followed by two small teeth, deep U-shaped emargination plus single tooth close to articulation of dactylus; latter with about 15 small setae on cutting margin. Operculum of female roughly pentagonal, 1.5 times longer than wide.

Etymology. The speci c name, from the Latin assumentum , a patch, refers to the strong blob of pigment at the base of the pleotelson.

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Stenetriidae

Genus

Stenetrium

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