A new species of Microcharon from marine interstitial waters, Shizuoka, Japan (Isopoda, Lepidocharontidae)

Jeongho Kim; Wonchoel Lee; Ivana Karanovic

doi:10.3897/zookeys.680.12048

A new species of Microcharon from marine interstitial waters, Shizuoka, Japan (Isopoda, Lepidocharontidae)

Zookeys. 2017 Jun 14:(680):13-31. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.680.12048. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Jeongho Kim¹, Wonchoel Lee¹, Ivana Karanovic^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Life Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
² Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia.

Abstract

A new species of Microcharon Karaman, 1934 (Asellota: Lepidocharontidae) is described from Miho-Uchihama beach, Shizuoka, Japan. Microcharon tanakaisp. n. differs from its congeners by having nine simple, five penicillate setae on antennal article 6; one simple distal seta on article 1 of the mandibular palp and having the apical lobe of male pleopod 1 convex, rounded, armed with seven setae. A key to Asian species of the genus and 16S rRNA of the new species are provided.

Keywords: Japan; interstitial; isopoda; morphology; taxonomy.