Saurodocus hobbit Yerman &amp; Krapp-Schickel 2008
Creators: name: Krapp-Schickel, Traudl
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Maeridae
Saurodocus
Saurodocus hobbit

description: <i>Saurodocus hobbit</i> Yerman &amp; Krapp-Schickel, 2008 (Fig. 25) <i>Saurodocus hobbit</i> Yerman &amp; Krapp-Schickel, 2008: 64, fig. 3. <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype, female, 2.2 mm, with one large egg (slide), AM P 77695 (SEL /LZI-1-1); 1 unknown sex, AM P77696 (SEL /LZI-1-1). <b>Type locality</b>. Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, Island (14°38.90' S 145°27.26’E). <b>Description.</b> Based on holotype, female, 2.2 mm, AM P77695. <b>Head.</b> <i>Head</i> with anteroventral corner rounded, without notch or slit; eyes round. <i>Antenna 1</i> peduncle strong, without robust setae along posterior margin; flagellum lost, therefore accessory flagellum unknown. <i>Antenna 2</i> peduncular article 2 gland cone not reaching to end of peduncular article 3; article 3 globular; article 4 longer than 5; flagellum with 12 articles. <i>Mandible</i> palp slender, article 1 without distal prolongation, articulation somewhat oblique; article 2 longer than article 3; article 3 longer than article 1, slim, subovoid with straight posterior margin, with 3 pectinate setae laterally. <i>Maxilla 1</i> inner plate triangular, as broad as long, with 6 setae. <i>Maxilla 2</i> inner plate with marginal and oblique setal row. <b>Pereon.</b> <i>Gnathopod 1</i> coxa rectangular, narrow, anteroventral corner not produced; carpus triangular, shorter than propodus; propodus shorter than coxa, posterior margin rounded, palm defined by blunt corner. <i>Gnathopod 2</i> coxa rectangular, narrow, anteroventral corner not produced; carpus triangular, shorter than propodus; propodus similar to that of gnathopod 1, but narrower, anterior and posterior margin with setae; dactylus inner margin with 2 incisions. <i>Pereopods</i> slender, with short setae, basis smooth; dactylus simple. <b>Pleon.</b> <i>Pleonites</i> quadrangular, without dentation. <i>Epimera 2–3</i> posterodistal corner acute. <i>Urosomites</i> smooth. <i>Uropod 1</i> peduncle a little longer than rami. <i>Uropod 2</i> peduncle subequal to rami. <i>Uropod 3</i> rami 7 x longer than broad, lanceolate, distally acute; outer ramus with fine serration on both margins. <i>Telson</i> quadrangular, deeply cleft, longer than broad, lobes distally with two incisions each having one short robust seta and 2–3 short fine setae; no lateral setae. <b>Male</b> (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown. <b>Habitat.</b> Protected beach with patch reefs offshore, coarse coral sand with pieces of coral, 0.5–1.0 m. Probably interstitial. <b>Remarks.</b> This tiny specimen was carrying one large egg, thus was undoubtedly adult. <b>Distribution.</b> <i>Australia</i>. Queensland: Lizard Island (Yerman &amp; Krapp-Schickel 2008, current study).
description: Published as part of <i>Krapp-Schickel, Traudl, 2009, Maeridae, the Ceradocus group *, pp. 598-642 in Zootaxa 2260 (1)</i> on page 636, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.32, http://zenodo.org/record/5309853
description: {"references": ["Yerman, M. N. &amp; Krapp-Schickel, T. (2008) A new genus and two new species of Saurodocus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa, 1820, 60 - 66."]}