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Shimomura, M.; Akiyama, T. (2006). A new species of the deep-sea isopod genus Katianira Hansen, 1916 (Crustacea: Asellota: Katianiridae) from the Kumano Basin, Japan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 119(4): 576-585.
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10.2988/0006-324x(2006)119[576:ansotd]2.0.co;2 [view]
Shimomura, M.; Akiyama, T.
2006
A new species of the deep-sea isopod genus Katianira Hansen, 1916 (Crustacea: Asellota: Katianiridae) from the Kumano Basin, Japan
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
119(4): 576-585
Publication
World Isopoda DB
Katianira platyura, new species, is described from the mid-bathyal zone of the Kumano Basin, southern Japan, the first record for the family from the North Pacific. Katianira platyura differs from its congeners by having the head with a pair of broad, deeply divided, bilobed lappets; pereonite 1 laterally rounded; anterior and posterior corners of pereonites blunt; mandibular molar process rudimentary; pereopod 3 flattened and broad; distal part of pleopod 1 with 32 setae; protopod of pleopod 2 trapezoidal; tip of endopod of pleopod 2 reaching to approximately 0.9 of protopod; and broad, leaf-shaped uropods.
Japan
Abyssal, Deep-Sea
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Chandra taylorae George, 2004 accepted as Katianira bilobata Gurjanova, 1930 (source of synonymy)
Katianira platyura Shimomura & Akiyama, 2006 (original description)
Katianira platyura Shimomura & Akiyama, 2006 (original description)
