Figorella tasmanica Lowry 1984
Creators: name: Lowry, J. K.
name: Stoddart, H. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Pakynidae
Figorella
Figorella tasmanica

description: <i>Figorella tasmanica</i> Lowry, 1984 <i>Figorella tasmanica</i> Lowry, 1984: 86, figs 28–30. &amp;horbar; Barnard &amp; Karaman, 1991: 487. &amp;horbar; Lowry &amp; Stoddart, 1994: 158. &amp;horbar; Springthorpe &amp; Lowry, 1994: 33. &amp;horbar; Lowry &amp; Stoddart, 2003: 166. <b>Material examined.</b> 2 specimens, MV J62419, 54 km east-south-east of Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, 34°52.72'S 151°15.04'E, 996 m, mud, fine sand and fine shell, epibenthic sled, 22 October 1988, G.C.B. Poore <i>et al.</i>, RV <i>Franklin</i>, stn SLOPE 53. <b>Diagnostic description.</b> <i>Head</i> lateral cephalic lobe large, narrowly rounded; ventral margin curved. <i>Antenna 1</i> peduncular article 1 without posterodistal spine; accessory flagellum 2-articulate, article 1 short; flagellum without callynophore in female, [male not known]. <i>Mandible</i> lacinia mobilis a simple robust seta; lamina dentata absent; accessory setal row present, not on raised setose ridge; molar absent; palp attached slightly distally; palp article 2 broad, shorter than article 3; article 3 not distally tapered, with anterior margin convex. <b> <i>Maxilla 1</i> outer plate with 10 setal-teeth</b> in 5/5 arrangement, one outer row setal-tooth with medial cusps; <b>palp</b> well developed, <b>2-articulate</b>, with apical slender seta. <i>Maxilliped</i> inner plate small; outer plate large; palp 4-articulate, article 4 large. <i>Gnathopod 1</i> chelate; ischium smaller than propodus, not swollen posteroproximally; carpus extremely compressed; <b>propodus</b> length about 1.7 × breadth, posterior margin well developed, <b>posterodistal corner of palm not attenuated</b>, corner of palm with simple robust seta; dactylus reaching to corner of palm. <i>Gnathopod 2</i> palm large, acute. <i>Pereonite 4</i> without dorsal spines. <i>Pereonite 5</i> without dorsal spines. <i>Pereopod 5</i> merus without posteroproximal shoulder. <i>Pereopod 6</i> basis with posteroventral lobe weakly produced; <b>merus</b> as broad as long, <b>with posteroproximal shoulder</b>. <i>Pereopod 7</i> basis subovate with posterior margin smooth. <i>Oostegites</i> from gnathopod 2 to pereopod 5. <i>Epimeron 3</i> posterior margin without projections, <b>posteroventral corner broadly rounded</b>. <i>Uropod 3</i> biramous, inner ramus just reaching base of article 2 of outer ramus. <b> <i>Telson</i> as long as broad, entire</b> . <b>Distribution.</b> South-eastern Australia, New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, western South Pacific Ocean; 595–1630 m depth.
description: Published as part of <i>Lowry, J. K. &amp; Stoddart, H. E., 2012, The Pachynidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) 3246, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 3246 (1)</i> on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3246.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5249007
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