Deep-sea Oplophoridae (Crustacea Caridea) from the southwestern Brazil
Author
Cardoso, Irene
Author
Contents, Paulo Young Table Of
text
Zootaxa
2005
2005-08-08
1031
1
1
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1031.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1031.1.1
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Genus
Systellaspis
Bate, 1888
Systellaspis
Bate, 1888: 757
;
Chace, 1986: 61
;
Holthuis, 1993: 39
.
Hoplopasiphaea
Yokoya & Shibata, 1965: 4
.
Diagnosis: Rostrum with more dorsal than ventral teeth. Carapace not carinate or denticulate dorsally; with or without lateral gastroorbital carina extending from near orbit to near posterior margin; without branchiostegal groove and hepatic spine. Abdomen not dorsally carinate on all somites; somite 6 longer than somite 5. Telson tapering to sharply acute apex; spinose end piece flanked by a pair of lateral, long, stout setae. Scaphocerite without lateral teeth. Mandible not very dissimilar, incisor process armed in entire length. Pereopods with ischium and merus not broadly compressed. Pereopod 4 with epipod well developed, except for vertical component. Appendix masculina present on second pleopod. Eggs large and few (less than 50) (modified from
Chace 1986
).