A new deep-water species of Myopiarolis Bruce, 2009 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Serolidae) from New Zealand waters

KEREN SPONG; NIEL L. BRUCE

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.6

Issue: Vol. 4057 No. 2: 10 Dec. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-12-10

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.6

Page range: 257–264

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**A new deep-water species of Myopiarolis Bruce, 2009 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Serolidae) from New Zealand waters**

KEREN SPONG⁺⁻
NIEL L. BRUCE⁺⁻

National Centre Coasts and Oceans, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 99940, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand.

Museum of Tropical Queensland, Queensland Museum and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, 70-102 Flinders St. Townsville, Australia 4810; Water Research Group (Ecology), Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Potchefstroom Campus, North West University, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa

Crustacea Myopiarolis taxonomy new species

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Abstract

Myopiarolis tona sp. nov. is described from the Challenger Plateau, southern Lord Howe Rise and the west coast of the North Island, New Zealand at depths of 634–1250 m. M. tona sp. nov. can be identified by the prominent posteriorly directed dorsal nodule on fused pereonites 5–7. There are nine species in four genera of the cold-water, epibenthic family Serolidae recorded from New Zealand waters, three species of Myopiarolis Bruce, 2009, one undescribed species of Acutiserolis Brandt, 1988, four of Brucerolis Poore and Storey, 2009 and the monotypic Spinoserolis Brandt, 1988.