Bemlos mollis Myers 1988
Creators: name: Myers, Alan A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Aoridae
Bemlos
Bemlos mollis

description: <i>Bemlos mollis</i> Myers, 1988 (Figs 19, 20) <i>Bemlos mollis</i> Myers, 1988b: 271, figs 4–6. — Lowry &amp; Stoddart, 2003: 68 (catalogue). <b>Material examined.</b> 1 male, AM P70753 (QLD 1648); 1 female, AM P71464 (QLD 1794). <b>Type locality.</b> Blue Lagoon, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia (~ 14°41'S 145°27'E). <b>Description.</b> Based on holotype, male, 3.0 mm, AM P37403. <b>Head.</b> <i>Head</i> lateral cephalic lobes apically truncate. <i>Antenna 1</i> flagellum with about 15 articles; accessory flagellum multiarticulate. <i>Antenna 2</i> with few long setae. <i>Lower lip</i> with fine setae and stout setae. <i>Maxilla 1</i> inner plate with 1 long pectinate apical seta. <i>Mandible</i>, palp article 3 longer than 2, posterior margin straight with setae of two distinct lengths, long setae and an under-story of much shorter regularly spaced setae. <b>Pereon.</b> <i>Pereonites 2–4</i> with apically acute sternal spines. <i>Gnathopod 1</i> enlarged in males only; coxa unproduced anterodistally; basis robust, half as broad as long, posterodistal margin with brush of very long setae, anterodistal margin with strong flange; ischium anterior margin without flange; merus not greatly elongated, fused along its entire length with carpus, posterior margin without posterodistal spine; carpus two thirds length of propodus; posterior margin without spines; propodus anterior margin weakly setiferous, posterior margin straight, palm present, delimited from posterior margin, forming a narrow sinus, palm defined by strong posterodistal spine, with robust seta defining palm, without spine near base of dactylus; dactylus more than half length of propodus, overlapping palm. <i>Gnathopod 2</i> subchelate; basis anterodistal margin without flange, posterodistal margin without robust setae; with few long setae along its length; merus posterior margin with very long setae; carpus longer than propodus, anterior margin not lobate, with long dense setae; propodus with long dense setae, palm with robust seta defining palm. <i>Pereopod 3</i> without brush of long setae on merus. <i>Pereopod 6</i> basis not produced posterodistally. <i>Pereopod 7</i> significantly greater than 125% length of pereopod 6. <b>Pleon.</b> <i>Epimeron 3</i> posterodistal margin rounded. <i>Uropod 1</i> rami subequal, peduncle much longer than broad, distoventral spine one quarter length of peduncle. <i>Uropod 2</i> biramous; peduncle with distoventral spine a little less than half length of peduncle. <i>Uropod 3</i> biramous, rami unequal in length, inner ramus more than twice length of peduncle. <i>Telson</i> with distal fine setae only. <b>Female</b> (sexually dimorphic characters). Based on paratype, female, 3.0 mm, AM P37404 (Myers, 1988b). Sternal spines absent. <i>Gnathopod 1</i> basis slender, much less than half as broad as long, anterodistal margin with flange absent; carpus subequal in length with propodus; propodus palm defined by rounded corner. <i>Gnathopod 2</i> carpus subequal with propodus. <b>Habitat.</b> Among algal turf and reef rubble. <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Bemlos mollis</i> is a very fragile aorid with elongate and slender appendages. It resembles the more robust <i>B. gladius</i> in the setose basis of the male gnathopod 1, but lacks the spine that occurs on the male gnathopod 1 carpus of that species. <b>Distribution.</b> <i>Australia</i>. Queensland: Lizard Island (Myers 1988b and current study).
description: Published as part of <i>Myers, Alan A., 2009, Aoridae *, pp. 220-278 in Zootaxa 2260 (1)</i> on pages 245-246, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/5321091
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