| abstract | Copidognathus lamelloides sp. n. is described. The most marked characters, porose areolae with rosette pores, anterior dorsal plate with a pair of round, adjacent porose areolae, posterior dorsal plate with single pair of costae, epimeral processes I and II large, gnathosoma slender; telofemora III and IV with 2/0 and 2/1 dorsal/ventral setae, are shared with C. lamellosus (Lohmann, 1893), C. tabellio (Trouessart, 1894), C. brevipes Viets, 1940, C. falcifer Viets, 1940, C. hartwigi Bartsch, 1978, and C. novus Bartsch, 1980. C. lamelloides sp. n. inhabits predominantly sublittoral deposits; records are from the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. |