Austroarcturus africanus Kensley, 1975

Poore, G. C. B., 2003, Revision of Holidoteidae, an endemic southern African family of Crustacea, and re-appraisal of taxa previously included in its three genera (Isopoda: Valvifera), Journal of Natural History 37, pp. 1805-1846 : 1810-1812

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scientific name	Austroarcturus africanus Kensley, 1975
status

Treatment

Austroarcturus africanus Kensley, 1975 View in CoL

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Austroarcturus africanus Kensley, 1975: 44–47 View in CoL , figure 4a–k; Kensley, 1978b: 25, figure 9d, e; Wägele, 1989: figure 64a.

Material examined

Several specimens of both sexes (one male dissected), SAM A19278 . two males, two females, NMV J47028 View Materials .

Diagnosis

Body dorsally smooth, mid-dorsal crest and tubercles absent. Pereonites 2–4 with a laterally expanded margin, uninterupted in both sexes; pereonite 5 narrower,

pereonites 6–7 and pleonites laterally expanded, not continuous. Pleonite 3 smoothly domed. Male to 6.5 mm; female to 7.0 mm.

Remarks

The species is one of the most flattened of the genus with tergal plates well expanded on anterior pereonites. The species occurs off False Bay, south-western South Africa, at 13–84 m depth.