Stenobermuda brucei, Kensley & Schotte, 2002

Kensley, B & Schotte, M, 2002, New species and records of Asellota from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda), Journal of Natural History 36, pp. 1421-1461 : 1457-1458

Stenobermuda brucei sp. nov.

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Type material. HOLOTYPE: ZMUC, 3.1 mm, sta CRU-1894, sand from reef, Bawe Island , Zanzibar, 25 m, 21 September 1995 . PARATYPES: ZMUC, one ovigerous

2.5 mm, one 2.2 mm, same data as holotype.

Diagnosis. Cephalon with antennal tooth low, subacute, anterolateral tooth acute, surpassing antennal tooth; rostrum narrowly triangular, reaching beyond anterolateral tooth. Eye weakly pigmented, consisting of four ommatidia. Pleotelson length subequal to basal width, with single lateral tooth. Pereopod 1 male, ischium, merus, carpus and propodus having stout elongate setae on mesial surface near anterior margins; carpus having cluster of ve stout fringed setae posterodistally; propodus subcircular, with three stout fringed setae on posterior margin, robust seta demarcating palm, latter having four slender fringed setae; dactylus having four fringed setae on cutting margin. Pereopod 2, carpus 3.5 times longer than wide, with two robust setae on posterior margin; propodus with two robust setae on posterior margin; dactylus biunguiculate, with small additional seta on posterior margin.

Remarks. Stenobermuda syzygus (Barnard, 1940) , recorded from the southwest Indian Ocean at Still Bay, South Africa, is the only Stenobermuda known from the Indian Ocean. This is a much larger species (6.5 mm) than the present species, and possesses a narrower propodus of pereopod 1 in the male. The two species recorded from Bermuda ( S. acutirostrata Schultz, 1979 , and S. ili V ei Kensley, 1994) both possess much narrower propodi of pereopod 1 in the male, than is seen in S. brucei .

Etymology. The species is named for Dr Niel Bruce of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, who collected this species along with several others described here.