Leviapseudes

Bamber, Roger N, Bird, Graham, Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena & Galil, Bella, 2009, Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from soft-sediment habitats off Israel, Eastern Mediterranean, Zootaxa 2109, pp. 1-44 : 9

Leviapseudes sp. indet.

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Material examined. 5 subadult individuals (NHM.2008.4694–4698), ALFA station 2, 32° 55.950’N 034° 35.974’E,1309.0 m depth, 0 7 June 2005.

No species of Leviapseudes has been recorded previously from the Mediterranean. Indeed, the only member of the subfamily recorded from the Mediterranean is Fageapseudes retusifrons (Richardson, 1912) (moved to this subfamily recently by Bamber, 2007). The present species is undoubtedly new to science, but the material is too incomplete and too immature to allow a description or diagnosis. None of the specimens bore pleopods. The only complete appendages on the present material are pereopod 1, antennae and mouthparts. Ventral hyposphenia are present on all pereonites and pleonites, that on pereonite 1 being blade-like, curving posteriorly, the others slender. From the available morphology, this species is a member of Băcescu’s (1984) wolffi -group.

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FIGURE 2. Leviapseudes sp. indet., subadult: A, habitus, dorsal; B, antenna; C, left mandible; D, maxillule; E. labium; F, first pereopod. Scale line = 1 mm for A; 0.2 mm for B, F; 0.1 mm for C to E.