Joeropsis dimorpha, 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 : 1432

publication ID

1464-5262

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5305583

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FCF375-FFBA-D351-86C5-2A0DE766FC36

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Felipe

scientific name

Joeropsis dimorpha
status

sp. nov.

Joeropsis dimorpha View in CoL sp. nov.

(gure 6F–I)

Type material. HOLOTYPE: USNM 253215 About USNM , 1.6 mm, sta K-SEY-16, algal turf on dead coral, Mahé Island, Seychelles, 2–3 m, 1 May 1984 . PARATYPES: USNM 253216 About USNM , 10 About USNM 1.0– 1.6 mm, three 1.2–1.5 mm, sta K-SEY-16, same data as holotype ; USNM 253217 About USNM , 21 About USNM , eight, sta K-SEY-21, clumps of Amphiroa on reef at, Mahé Island, Seychelles, 1 m, 25 February 1989 .

Other material. USNM 253218 About USNM , 18 About USNM , four ovigerous, three, sta K-SEY-22, algal turf on granite boulders, Mahé Island, Seychelles, 25 February 1989 ; USNM 253219 About USNM , one, nine, sta K-SEY-23, algal turf on reef crest, Mahé Island, Seychelles, 25 February 1989 ; USNM 253220 About USNM , one, sta K-SEY-34, encrusting coralline algae, Anse Royale, Mahé Island, Seychelles, 15 August 1992 ; USNM 253221 About USNM , one, sta K-AL-14, dense clumps of Halimeda alga on dead coral heads, Cinq Cases , Aldabra, 3 April 1983 .

Diagnosis. Rostrum as long as wide, subcircular. Lateral margins of cephalon entire. Lateral margins of pleotelson bearing four teeth. Uropodal basis with mesiodistal corner rounded. Red-brown pigment in female fairly dense, somewhat reticulated, on cephalon and pereonites 1–4; in male, on cephalon, pereonites 1–4, 6–7 plus pleotelson, concentrated along midline, pereonite 5 lacking pigment.

Etymology. The speci c name refers to the sexually dimorphic pigment pattern of this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Joeropsididae

Genus

Joeropsis

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