A review of the scopelocheirid amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea), with the description of new taxa from Australian waters
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Kilgallen, Niamh M.
Australian Museum Research Institute, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
niamh.kilgallen@austmus.gov.au
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Lowry, James K.
Australian Museum Research Institute, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2015
2015-03-05
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.8440
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.8440
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Anisocallisoma
Hendrycks & Conlan, 2003
Anisocallisoma
Hendrycks & Conlan, 2003: 2313.
Type species.
Anisocallisoma armigera
Hendrycks & Conlan, 2003, by monotypy.
Included species.
Anisocallisoma
includes one species:
Anisocallisoma armigera
Hendrycks & Conlan, 2003.
Diagnostic description.
Mandible lacinia mobilis a long, slender robust seta
.
Maxilla 1 inner plate with apical pappose setae only; palp 1-articulate
. Maxilla 2 inner and outer plates subequal in width and in length. Maxilliped palp article 4 reduced. Gnathopod 1 coxa reduced, margins tapering distally; basis swollen; dactylus reduced, simple. Pereopods 3 and 4 carpus short, longer than wide.
Pereopod 4 coxa with weakly-developed, subacutely produced posteroventral lobe
.
Discussion.
Anisocallisoma
can be distinguished from all other paracallisomines by the reduction in the number of setae of the maxilla 1 inner plate. It is most similar to
Eucallisoma
Barnard, 1961, and
Tayabasa
gen. n. They share the following characters: gnathopod 1 basis swollen, glandular; dactylus reduced, simple. It is also very similar to the new genus
Austrocallisoma
, but it can be distinguished from all of these taxa in lacking the distal tuft of setae on the accessory flagellum, and in having a much more weakly-developed posteroventral lobe on the pereopod 4 coxa, as well as the reduced setae on the maxilla 1.