Revision of the amphipod genus Valettiopsis Holmes, 1908 (Crustacea: Lysianassoidea), with the addition of three new species
Author
Horton, Tammy
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Journal of Natural History
2004
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Key to the species of
Valettiopsis
1 Pereon segments 5–7 and pleon segments 1–3 dentate dorsally..
V. multidentata
– Pereon segments 5–7 and pleon segments 1–3 smooth dorsally....... 2
2 Gnathopod 2 propodus robust, expanded, with concave palm, dactyl not reaching palm edge (
figure 6
)...............
V. macrodactyla
– Gnathopod 2, propodus not as above.............. 3
3 Gnathopod 2, carpus elongate (length more than twice breadth), slender, distinctly longer than propodus (
figure 3
)................. 4
– Gnathopod 2, carpus not elongate (length less than twice breadth) or slender, only slightly longer than propodus (
figure 9
).............. 6
4 Gnathopods 1 and 2, propodus with palms strongly oblique, urosome 1 tooth reduced, distal article of uropod 3 outer ramus very short (1/13 of proximal article)
V. ruffoi
– Characters not as above................... 5
5 Gnathopod 2, propodus tapering distally, palm transverse, dactyls on pereopods 3–7 curved (
figure 1
)..................
V. dentata
– Gnathopod 2, propodus not tapered, palm oblique; dactyls on pereopods 3–7 elongate, straight (
figure 3
)..............
V. longidactyla
6 Urosome 1 tooth distinctly curved; pereopod 5 basis broad, expanded not tapering, pereopod 6–7 basis broad with slight tapering (
figure 11
).....
V. minuta
– Urosome 1 tooth straight or weakly sinuous; pereopod 5 basis narrow, not tapering (see
Lincoln and Thurston, 1983
:
figure 3d
). Pereopod 6–7 basis broad; pereopod 7 basis tapering...................
V. lincolni