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Synisoma albertoi, a new species from the Strait of Gibraltar (southern Spain) with a key to known species of the genus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2005

Carolina Castellanos  and
Juan Junoy
Carolina Castellanos
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Juan Junoy
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Spain
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Abstract

Synisoma albertoi sp. nov. (Isopoda: Valvifera: Idoteidae), is described and illustrated from specimens collected in the Strait of Gibraltar (southern Spain). The new species can be distinguished from all other species of the genus, with the exception of S. bellonae and S. raqueliae, by the fusion of the flagellar articles of the antenna. It is easily distinguishable from both S. bellonae and S. raqueliae by the presence of a tubercle on the cephalon; these three species also differ in the morphology of pleotelson, pereopods and appendix masculina. A key to the known species of Synisoma is provided.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 85 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 1461 - 1466
Copyright
© 2005 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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