Two new species of the genus Munnogonium (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae) from Argentina
Author
Doti, Brenda L.
Author
Roccatagliata, Daniel
text
Zootaxa
2013
3717
3
301
319
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3717.3.1
e922a981-3e17-4ea7-ba02-874e768d1081
1175-5326
222399
67194F25-7D95-4E2D-9053-8F805F0147D8
Munnogonium
George & Strömberg, 1968
Type
species.
Munnogonium waldronense
George & Strömberg, 1968
Diagnosis.
(Emended after Just and Wilson, 2007).
Body
ovate.
Head
frontal margin not projecting, with or without a tight tuft of setae (at low resolution the tuft of setae looks like a short blunt median projection).
Pereonites
dorsally smooth.
Pleotelson
lateral margins smooth.
Eyestalks
vestigial, not longer than wide (except in the males of
M. quequensis
n. sp.
), downward pointed.
Antennula
article 1 at least twice length of eyestalk.
Mandible palp
absent.
Pereopod I
carpus triangular with 3 straight, subequal robust setae on posterior margin; propodus with simple setae on posterior margin (
M. quequensis
n. sp.
also with 1 robust seta).
Pereopod II
carpus and propodus with several long, very slender robust setae on posterior margin.
Uropod
endopod straight, apex truncate.