Shoemakerella fissipro, Ortiz & Capetillo & Winfield, 2020

Ortiz, Manuel, Capetillo, Norberto & Winfield, Ignacio, 2020, Validation of Shoemakerella fissipro Ortiz, Capetillo & Winfield, from the Gulf of California, northeastern Pacific Ocean (Amphipoda: Amphilochidea: Lysianassidae), Zootaxa 4728 (1), pp. 150-150 : 150

Shoemakerella fissipro sp. nov.

Shoemakerella fissipro Ortiz, Capetillo & Winfield, 2018: 599–605 , figs. 1–4 [unavailable].

Type material. HOLOTYPE: female with oostegites, 5.3 mm total length, 2 m depth, collected in a spiny lobster puerulus tramp, September 30, 2016, deposited in the National Crustacean Collection of the of Biology Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, CNCR 34500 . PARATYPE: female with oostegites, 5.4 mm total length, collected together with the holotype, CNCR34501 .

Diagnosis. Mandible palp article 3 surface finely grooved, without setae or cuticular extrusions, on both margins; article 3 short, 0.7× article 2; propodus on pereopods 3–7 with distal fissure; pereopods 6 and 7 basis posterior margin concave; telson posterior margin rounded.

Etymology. The new species is named after the morphological characteristic (fissure) in the distal part of each propodus of the pereopods 3–7.

Remarks. A full description and figures of S. fiissipro and list of additional non-type material examined is given by Ortiz et al. (2018).