Shintani Aki, Umemura Shinya, Nakano Takafumi, Tomikawa K O
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Hiroshima University; 1-1-1 Kagamiyama; Higashihiroshima; Hiroshima 739-8524; Japan.
Fukui City Museum of Natural History; 147 Asuwakami-cho; Fukui 918-8006; Japan.
Zootaxa. 2023 Jun 12;5301(3):383-396. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5301.3.4.
A new species of pseudocrangonyctid amphipod, Pseudocrangonyx asuwaensis, is described from subterranean water in a quarry on Mt. Asuwa "Nanatsuo-guchi", Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Pseudocrangonyx asuwaensis sp. nov. differs from its congeners in various morphological features, such as head without eyes, relative length of antennae 1, female antenna 2 without calceoli, length ratio of mandibular palp articles, setal numbers on maxillae 1 and 2 inner plates, absence of sternal gills, armature of urosomite 1, and shape of telson. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that P. asuwaensis sp. nov. is clustered with P. komaii Tomikawa & Nakano, 2018, Pseudocrangonyx sp. 7 and Pseudocrangonyx sp. 8, and was the first of these species to diverge.
一种新的拟摇蚊科(Pseudocrangonyctid)端足目动物——浅羽伪摇蚊(Pseudocrangonyx asuwaensis),是从日本福井县浅羽山“七つ尾口”一个采石场的地下水中发现并描述的。浅羽伪摇蚊新物种在多个形态特征上与其同属物种不同,例如头部无眼、第一触角的相对长度、雌虫第二触角无钙质体、下颌触须各节的长度比、第一和第二上颚内板上的刚毛数量、无胸骨鳃、第一尾节的武装以及尾节的形状。分子系统发育分析表明,浅羽伪摇蚊新物种与小间伪摇蚊(P. komaii Tomikawa & Nakano, 2018)、伪摇蚊属物种7和伪摇蚊属物种8聚在一起,并且是这些物种中最先分化出来的。