Natatolana boko Bruce 1986
Creators: name: Keable, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Cirolanidae
Natatolana
Natatolana boko

description: <i>Natatolana boko</i> Bruce, 1986 <i>Natatolana boko</i> Bruce, 1986:59, fig.35, 36.–Springthorpe &amp; Lowry, 1994: 40.– Brusca <i>et al</i>., 1995: 79.– Bruce <i>et al</i>., 2002: 149. <b>Type material</b>. Holotype: 3, 5.2 mm, AM P32173. Paratype: AM P30382. All examined. Type locality: east of Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland, Australia, 23°44'S 152°49'E, 357–384 m. <b>Material examined</b>. <b>Tasmania</b>: 15, NMV J18419-21, all off Freycinet Peninsula, 41°57.5'– 42°2.2'S 148°37.7'– 148°38.7'E, sled, coarse shell or shelly sand, 400–800 m, M.F. Gomon <i>et al</i>., 27 Jul. 1986. <b>Diagnosis</b>. <i>Eyes</i>: vestigial. <i>Interocular furrow</i>: well developed, extending across the cephalon (described by Bruce (1986) as submarginal furrow); smoothly convex. <i>Frontal lamina</i>: lateral margins straight, parallel. <i>Antenna</i>: c. 0.25–0.3× as long as body, reaching to posterior of pereonite 2. <i>Coxal plates</i>: furrows completely absent on all coxae. <i>Pleonite 4</i>: apex forming a broad acute point. <i>Pleotelson</i>: broad, length 0.67× basal width; anterodorsal depression absent (although described by Bruce (1986) as having a depression, this is not distinct and abrupt as in species such as <i>N. pellucida</i>); anterolateral margins convex; posterolateral margins concave; apex not produced, lateral margins converging smoothly to a point; RS absent. <i>Pereopod 2</i>: propodus with 0–2 RS on palm. <i>Pereopod 3</i>: propodus without RS on palm. <i>Pereopods 5–7</i>: propodus short and robust on each pereopod. <i>Pereopod 7</i>: basis broad, width 0.54× length; distance between anterior margin and medial carina less than between posterior margin and medial carina; posterior margin with sparse setae on proximal half. <i>Penes</i>: present (although the vas deferens are described as opening flush to the sternite surface by Bruce (1986), distinct penial processes are evident in the type material and other material examined). <i>Pleopod 2 appendix masculina</i>: extending subequal with tip of endopod, 1.03× length of endopod; slender; margins very slightly curved laterally; apex not at angle to adjacent margins, bluntly rounded. <i>Uropods</i>: exopod short, 0.6× the length of the endopod; lateral margin without RS. <b>Size</b>. Adults to c. 5.2 mm. <b>Remarks</b>. <i>Natatolana boko</i> can be readily distinguished from other species by the sinuate lateral margins of the pleotelson and uropod endopod, both of which also lack robust setae. <b>Distribution</b>. Australia: off Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland; Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania. At depths of 357– 800 m.
description: Published as part of <i>Keable, Stephen J., 2006, Taxonomic Revision of Natatolana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae), pp. 133-244 in Records of the Australian Museum 58 (2)</i> on page 156, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.58.2006.1469, http://zenodo.org/record/4685692
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