Brucerolis cidaris ( Poore and Brandt, 1997 )

Storey, Melissa J. & Poore, Gary C. B., 2009, New species of Brucerolis (Crustacea: Isopoda: Serolidae) from seas around New Zealand and Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 66 (1), pp. 147-173 : 154

Brucerolis cidaris ( Poore and Brandt, 1997)

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Acutiserolis cidaris Poore and Brandt, 1997: 157 − 160 , figs. 4 − 6. Brucerolis cidaris . — Poore and Storey, 2009: 152-153.

Distribution. Coral Sea, Australia, near Townsville and Chesterfield Islands, 17°12.15'S − 21°15.01'S, 147°10.80'E − 157°51.33'E, 891 − 1491 m.

Remarks. Brucerolis cidaris is diagnosed by its small size, emarginate tips of epimera 2 and 3 and pock-marked anterolateral region of pereonite 1. Brucerolis hurleyi and B. osheai are similar to B. cidaris but both have a covering of long setules on the lower margin of the male pereopod 2, a dorsal curved acute process on the anterior margin of the head and acute tips of epimera 2 and 3.

Figures

Figure 1. Head and pereonite 1 of species of Brucerolis. a, B. brandtae sp. nov. (NMV J55313). b, B. bromleyana (syntype, BMNH 1889.4.27.20, negative of drawing by Kate Thompson published by Poore & Brandt, 1997). c, B. cidaris (NMV J27642). d, B. howensis (NMV J55315). e, B. hurleyi (NMV J55314). f, B. nowra (NMV J19213). g, B. osheai (NMV J55316). h, B. victoriensis (NMV J19201). Scale bar in each case = 10 mm.