Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T23:15:26.789Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

First report of Leptostraca from South-east Asia: Nebalia cambodiana sp. nov. (Crustacea: Malacostraca)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

Ji-Hun Song
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Nam-gu, Incheon, 22212, Korea
Taeseo Park
Affiliation:
Animal Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, Korea
Gi-Sik Min*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Nam-gu, Incheon, 22212, Korea
*
Correspondence should be addressed to:G.-S. Min, Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Nam-gu, Incheon, 22212, Korea email: mingisik@inha.ac.kr

Abstract

A new species of Leptostraca, Nebalia cambodiana sp. nov. (Crustacea: Malacostraca), is described from Cambodia. The specimen was collected by light traps on a diving deck where the bottom consisted of fine sand and gravel. The new species is distinguished from all other known species of Nebalia by the following characteristics: rostrum very long, length nearly 3.5 times width; a compound eye with one distinct dorsal papilla and four small lobes on distal margin; an antennular flagellum with nine articles; the fourth article of the antennular peduncle with only one distal thick seta; the antennular scale is elliptical, with a length that is 2 times the width; exopod of the second maxilla is the same length as first article of its endopod; pleonites 5 to 7 with rounded denticles along their posterior dorsal margins; the protopod of pleopod 4 lacks serration along the posterior margin; and anal plates with distinct lateral ‘shoulder’.

The new species is the first species of Leptostraca found in South-east Asia. In this paper, we provide illustrations and a detailed description of the diagnostic characteristics of N. cambodiana sp. nov.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2016 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Bochert, R. and Zettler, M.L. (2012) Nebalia deborahae, a new species of Leptostraca (Phyllocarida) from South West Africa. Crustaceana 85, 205218.Google Scholar
Claus, C. (1880) Grundzuge der Zoologie, 4th edition, Volume 1. Marburg: N. G. Elwert, 822 pp.Google Scholar
Haney, T.A., Hessler, R.R. and Martin, J.W. (2001) Nebalia schizophthalma, a new species of Leptostracan (Malacostraca) from deep waters off the East Coast of the United States. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21, 192201.Google Scholar
Kazmi, Q.B. and Tirmizi, N.M. (1989) A new species of Nebalia from Pakistan (Leptostraca). Crustaceana 56, 293298.Google Scholar
Koçak, C. and Moreira, J. (2015) A new Nebalia species (Crustacea, Phyllocarida, Leptostraca) from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 95, 16671675.Google Scholar
Leach, W.L. (1814) The zoological miscellany, being descriptions of new and interesting animals. London: McMillan, 149 pp.Google Scholar
Lee, C.N.W. and Bamber, R.N. (2011) A new species of Nebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong. Zootaxa 3091, 5159.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mees, J. (2015) Leptostraca. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species. Available at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146996on2016-03-14 Google Scholar
Moreira, J., Cacabelos, E. and Domínguez, M. (2003) Nebalia troncosoi sp. nov., a new species of leptostracan (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from Galicia, Iberian Peninsula (north-east Atlantic). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83, 341350.Google Scholar
Moreira, J., Diaz-Agras, G., Candás, M., Señarís, M.P. and Urgorri, V. (2009) Leptostracans (Crustacea: Phyllocarida) from the Ria de Ferrol (Galicia, NW Iberian Peninsula), with description of a new species of Nebalia Leach, 1814. Scientia Marina 73, 269285.Google Scholar
Moreira, J., Koçak, C. and Katagan, T. (2007) Nebalia kocatasi sp. nov., a new species of leptostracan Crustacea: Phyllocarida) from Izmir Bay (Aegean Sea, eastern Mediterranean). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87, 12471254.Google Scholar
Samouelle, G. (1819) The Entomologist's Useful Compendium; or An Introduction to the Knowledge of British Insects, comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linne, and the modern method of arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, Spiders, Mites and Insects, from their affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr Leach, Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology; a calendar of the times of appearance and usual situations of near 3000 species of British insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. London: Thomas Boys, 496 pp.Google Scholar
Song, J.-H. and Min, G.-S. (2016) A new species of Nebalia (Malacostraca: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from South Korea, with a key to the species of Nebalia Leach, 1814. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, available on CJO2016. doi: 10.1017/S0025315415002180.Google Scholar
Song, J.-H., Moreira, J. and Min, G.-S. (2012) A new species of Leptostraca, Nebalia koreana (Malacostraca: Phyllocarida), from South Korea. Journal of Crustacean Biology 32, 641653.Google Scholar
Song, J.-H., Moreira, J. and Min, G.-S. (2013) Nebalia pseudotroncosoi n. sp. (Malacostraca: Leptostraca), from South Korea, with a peculiar sexual dimorphism. Journal of Crustacean Biology 33, 124136.Google Scholar
Vetter, E.W. (1996) Nebalia daytoni n. sp., a leptostracan from Southern California (Phyllocarida). Crustaceana 69, 379386.CrossRefGoogle Scholar