Liu Wenliang, Sha Zhongli
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.; Email:
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Sep 11;4013(4):531-40. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.4.
A new species of the genus Litarcturus Brandt, 1990, L. kexueiae sp. nov., collected from deep sea of the Okinawa Trough, is described and illustrated. It is readily distinguished from the other seven species of the genus by bearing long supraocular spines about as long as the head and posterolateral pleotelsonic spines overreaching the pleotelson apex.
描述并图示了1990年布兰特属(Litarcturus)的一个新物种——科学布兰特(L. kexueiae)新种,该物种采自冲绳海槽深海。它很容易与该属的其他七个物种区分开来,其特征是具有约与头部等长的长眶上棘,以及超过尾节顶端的后外侧腹尾棘。