Krapp-Schickel Traudl, Sket Boris
Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany.; Email:
Oddelek za biologijo, Biotehniška fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani, p.p. 2995, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Apr 21;3948(2):248-62. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.2.6.
Described is Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Melitidae) from the southwestern corner of the Caspian Sea. It shows no particular similarity to any species known from the Mediterranean Sea. It inhabits, as the only amphipod species, dense growths of Amphibalanus cf. improvisus (Darwin 1854) in a port, at low and highly fluctuating salinities. Its most striking characters are: absence of any pleonal or urosomal dorsal teeth (projections), elongated distal article of the mandibular palp, hind margin of last pereopod bases strongly narrowed distad, and epimera posterodistally rectangular. An identification key for the species group of Melita without dorsal teeth and without article 2 on the exopodite of the third uropod is provided.
描述了来自里海西南角的米尔扎贾尼梅利塔新种（梅利塔科）。它与地中海已知的任何物种都没有特别的相似之处。作为唯一的双足类物种，它栖息在港口盐度较低且波动很大的地方，密集生长着近似即兴藤壶（达尔文，1854年）。其最显著的特征是：没有任何腹节或尾节的背齿（突起），下颌触须的远端节延长，最后一对步足基部的后缘向远端强烈变窄，以及后侧片后远端呈矩形。提供了一个用于识别没有背齿且第三尾足外肢没有第二节的梅利塔物种组的检索表。
