Saurodocus minimarenus 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 minimarenus

description: <i>Saurodocus minimarenus</i> Yerman &amp; Krapp-Schickel, 2008 (Figs 26, 27) <i>Saurodocus minimarenus</i> Yerman &amp; Krapp-Schickel, 2008: 61, figs 1, 2. <b>Type material.</b> Holotype, female, 1.2 mm, (slide), AM P77560, reef crest off Coconut Beach, Lizard Island (14°41.037’S 145°28.282’E), patches of coarse coral sand between reef, 2.6 m, M. Yerman, 23 February 2005 (QLD 1620). <b>Type locality.</b> Coconut Beach, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia (14°41.037’S 145°28.282’E). <b>Description.</b> Based on holotype, female, 1.2 mm, AM P77560. <b>Head.</b> <i>Head</i> with anteroventral corner rounded; without notch or slit; eyes round. <i>Antenna 1</i> longer than antenna 2; peduncle rather strong; peduncular article 1 longer than article 2, without robust setae along posterior margin; flagellum with 8 articles; accessory flagellum minute, with 2 articles. <i>Antenna 2</i> peduncular article 2 gland cone not reaching to end of peduncular article 3; article 3 globular; article 4 subequal to longer than article 5; flagellum with 5 articles. <i>Mandible palp</i> inner margin of article 1 weakly produced distally, article 2 longer than article 3, article 3 longer than article 1, with 2 lateral setae, 3 smooth distal setae and many shorter setae along the surface. <i>Maxilla 1</i> inner plate with 3 distal setae. <i>Maxilla 2</i> inner plate with marginal setae, without oblique setal row. <i>Maxilliped</i> inner plate not reaching basis of outer plate, which is about the same length. <b>Pereon.</b> <i>Gnathopod 1</i> coxa anteroventral corner not produced, anterior margin convex; carpus 0.6 x length of propodus, triangular, shorter than propodus; palm nearly transverse and defined by posterodistal corner. <i>Gnathopod 2</i> carpus triangular, shorter than propodus; propodus similar to that of gnathopod 1, but narrower and lacking palmar corner, anterior and posterior margins with setae. <i>Pereopods 3–7</i> dactyli without anterodistal spine. <i>Pereopods 5–7</i> slender, with few short setae, basis posterior margin smooth. <b>Pleon.</b> <i>Pleonite 1</i> dorsally smooth. <i>Pleonite 2</i> with dorsal spine. <i>Pleonite 3</i> dorsally smooth. <i>Epimeron 1</i> posteroventral corner with small acute or subacute spine. <i>Epimeron 2</i> posteroventral corner acute. <i>Epimeron 3</i> posteroventral margin distally with some small teeth. <i>Urosomite 1</i> with long dorsal spine. <i>Urosomite 2</i> posterior margin smooth. <i>Urosomite 3</i> without dorsal setae. <i>Uropods 1–2</i> peduncle longer than rami. <i>Uropod 3</i> rami 6.5 x longer than broad, distally acute or subacute, lanceolate. <i>Telson</i> quadrangular, deeply cleft; longer than broad with 2 short, subapical robust setae on each lobe, no lateral setation. <b>Male</b> (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown. <b>Habitat.</b> Living in coarse coral sand among coral reef at 2.6 m. Probably interstitial. <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Saurodocus minimarenus</i> differs from <i>S. hobbit</i> in the following main characters: gnathopod 2 propodus is half as long as wide as that of <i>S. hobbit</i>; pleon with dorsal spines (smooth in <i>S. hobbit</i>). <b>Distribution.</b> <i>Australia.</i> Queensland: Lizard Island (Yerman &amp; Krapp 2008).
description: Published as part of <i>Krapp-Schickel, Traudl, 2009, Maeridae, the Ceradocus group *, pp. 598-642 in Zootaxa 2260 (1)</i> on page 638, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.32, http://zenodo.org/record/5309853
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