Comprehensive Description
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Asteropella pax
Asteropella species 1.—Kornicker, 1981a:275.
ETYMOLOGY.—From the Latin pax, (“peace”), used as a noun in apposition.
HOLOTYPE.—USNM 159087, adult male on slide and in alcohol.
TYPE-LOCALITY.—Gulf of Mexico, R/V Longhorn, transect IV, sta 4.
PARATYPES.—West Florida continental shelf, sta 14, USNM 193151, 193152, 2 specimens. Texas continental shelf: sta 4, transect III: USNM 193145, 1 specimen; USNM 159088, 1 A-l male; USNM 193144, 1 specimen. Sta 4, transect IV: USNM 193146, 1 juvenile; USNM 193147, 1 specimen.
DISTRIBUTION.—Continental shelf off west Florida and south Texas; depth 15–26 m.
DIAGNOSIS.—Each valve with broad, continuous flange lying just within valve margin; posterodorsal margin of flange evenly rounded; edge of valve without broad flange; horizontal midrib extremely short. Length of male holotype 1.48 mm.
COMPARISONS.—Carapace differs from that of Asteropella maclaughlinae in posterodorsal corner on inner concentric flange being evenly rounded and in having much shorter midrib. Midrib shorter than that of Asteropella species A (Kornicker, 1975:559).
DISTRIBUTION.—Worldwide between about 34°N and 41°S at depths of 0–100 m.
COMPOSITION.—This genus is represented in the study area by only 1 species. A. oculitristis (Darby, 1965).
- bibliographic citation
- Kornicker, Louis S. 1986. "Cylindroleberididae of the Western North Atlantic and the Northern Gulf of Mexico, and Zoogeography of the Myodocopina (Ostracoda)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-139. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.425
