A new classification of Callianassidae and related families (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) derived from a molecular phylogeny with morphological support
Author
Poore, Gary C. B.
Author
Dworschak, Peter C.
Author
Robles, Rafael
Author
Mantelatto, Fernando L.
Author
Felder, Darryl L.
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2019
Mem. Mus. Vic.
2019-12-31
78
73
146
http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2019.78.05
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2019.78.05
1447-2554
12214175
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:263C1363-0ADA-4972-9224-AC690A1FD238
Vulcanocalliax
Dworschak and Cunha, 2007
Vulcanocalliax
Dworschak and Cunha, 2007: 37
.—
Sakai, 2011:
350–351.
Type
species
.
Vulcanocalliax arutyunovi
Dworschak and Cunha, 2007
, by original designation and monotypy.
Diagnosis
. Rostrum obsolete or obtusely triangular, flat, not reaching cornea; carapace without median carina; cardiac sulci absent. Pleomere 6 without lateral projections. Maxilliped 3 exopod absent.
Male
major
cheliped merus with 1–2 small proximal teeth on lower margin
.
Remarks
. The sole species,
Vulcanocalliax arutyunovi
Dworschak and Cunha, 2007
, was placed in its own subfamily of
Callianassidae
close to
Bathycalliacinae
by its authors but the subfamily was transferred to
Bathycalliacidae
by
Sakai (2011)
. Contrary to
Sakai’s (2011)
assertion, the only species does not have a dorsal plate on the uropodal exopod. It differs from
Bathycalliax geomar
in the absence of cardiac sulci and possession of a maxilliped 3 exopod.