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A new species of Cirolana Leach, 1818 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the western Ross Sea, Antarctica, the first record of the genus from polar waters

Niel L. BRUCE & Angelika BRANDT

en Zoosystema 28 (2) - Pages 315-324

Published on 30 June 2006

This article is a part of the thematic issue Papers in honour of Patsy A. McLaughlin

Cirolana mclaughlinae n. sp. is described from specimens collected in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. The species is characterised by the head having a prominent anterior marginal ridge, lacking a rostrum, and being dorsally depressed; the posterior submarginal surfaces of pereonites 5-7 and the pleonites are nodulose and pitted; the pleotelson has weakly concave lateral margins converging to a narrowly rounded apex, the dorsal surface is provided with a low, longitudinal median ridge. The genus has a world-wide distribution, but has hitherto not been recorded from polar waters, the previous most southerly record being at about 44°S.


Keywords:

Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoida, Cirolanidae, Cirolana, Antarctica, Ross Sea, new species.

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