WoRMS taxon details
Metopa insolita Tandberg & Vader, 2023
1722126 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1722126)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Tandberg, A. H. S.; Vader, W. (2023). A new stenothoid (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Stenothoidae) from a shallow water hydroid polyp in British Columbia, Canada. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 75(4): 559-565., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1893 [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype ZMBN ZMBN104469, geounit Canadian Exclusive...
Holotype ZMBN ZMBN104469, geounit Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Etymology Named insolita (from Latin “insolitus”—unusual) referring to the unusual shape of the gnathopod 2 propodus in the male.
Taxonomic remark Pending an integrative revision of the genus Metopa, we have provisionally placed this new species in Metopa, as this...
Etymology Named insolita (from Latin “insolitus”—unusual) referring to the unusual shape of the gnathopod 2 propodus in the male. [details]
Taxonomic remark Pending an integrative revision of the genus Metopa, we have provisionally placed this new species in Metopa, as this...
Taxonomic remark Pending an integrative revision of the genus Metopa, we have provisionally placed this new species in Metopa, as this presently “catch-all genus” contains other species with a somewhat similar, although less extreme, shape of the posterior pereopods (M. boecki G. O. Sars, 1892; M. dawsoni J. L. Barnard, 1962; M. pusilla G. O. Sars, 1892; and M. tenuimana G. O. Sars, 1892). Metopa insolita sp. nov. does not appear to be morphologically congeneric with the type species of Metopa, M. clypeata (Krøyer, 1842), which, however, in many aspects is morphologically divergent from the majority of the species now included in the genus, highlighting the need for an integrative revision of Metopa. [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2024). World Amphipoda Database. Metopa insolita Tandberg & Vader, 2023. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1722126 on 2024-05-01
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Tandberg, A. H. S.; Vader, W. (2023). A new stenothoid (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Stenothoidae) from a shallow water hydroid polyp in British Columbia, Canada. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 75(4): 559-565., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1893 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Holotype ZMBN ZMBN104469, geounit Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Association Found sitting on the polyp of the large anthoathecate hydroid, Zyzzyzus rubusidaeus Brinckmann-Voss & Calder, 2013. [details]Etymology Named insolita (from Latin “insolitus”—unusual) referring to the unusual shape of the gnathopod 2 propodus in the male. [details]
Taxonomic remark Pending an integrative revision of the genus Metopa, we have provisionally placed this new species in Metopa, as this presently “catch-all genus” contains other species with a somewhat similar, although less extreme, shape of the posterior pereopods (M. boecki G. O. Sars, 1892; M. dawsoni J. L. Barnard, 1962; M. pusilla G. O. Sars, 1892; and M. tenuimana G. O. Sars, 1892). Metopa insolita sp. nov. does not appear to be morphologically congeneric with the type species of Metopa, M. clypeata (Krøyer, 1842), which, however, in many aspects is morphologically divergent from the majority of the species now included in the genus, highlighting the need for an integrative revision of Metopa. [details]
