A new bathyal mysid of the family Petalophthalmidae (Crustacea: Mysida) from the Bismarck Sea (Western Tropical Pacific Ocean)
Author
Vicente, Carlos San
Author
Corbari, Laure
text
Zootaxa
2015
3925
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241
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.6
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1175-5326
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Key to species of
Petalophthalmus
Willemoës-Suhm, 1875
An identification key (modified from
Panampunnayil 1982
,
Wang 1998
,
San Vicente
et al.
2014
) is proposed to include the new species herein described.
1. Eyes flattened and leaf-like, without eyestalks and without functional visual elements............................... 2
- Eyes not flattened, with cornea more or less globular in shape, with eyestalks and functional visual elements............. 3
2. Eyes with ocular papilla near the middle inner dorsal margin........
P. papilloculatus
San Vicente
, Frutos and Cartes, 2014
- Eyes without ocular papilla..................................................
P. armiger
Willemoës-Suhm, 1875
3. Eye cornea globular, eyestalk shorter than the cornea, cornea with ocular papilla. Telson apex without pappose setae..........................................................................................
P. papuaensis
sp.nov.
- Eye cornea hemispherical or reniform, eyestalk subequal or slightly longer than the cornea, cornea without ocular papilla. Tel- son apex with pappose setae............................................................................ 4
4. Eyestalk with ocular papilla near the middle inner dorsal margin...............................
P. oculatus
Illig, 1906
- Eyestalk without ocular papilla........................................................................... 5
5. Eye cornea hemispherical; telson apex emarginated in the median region and lateral margins with 12–15 setae increasing in length backwards..............................................................
P. caribbeanus
Tattersall, 1968
- Eye cornea reniform. Telson apex not emarginated in the median region; lateral margins with more than 15 subequal setae.. 6
6. Apex of rostral plate slightly pointed. Eyestalk subequal in length to cornea. Telson apex armed with three serrate setae....................................................................
P. macrops
Tchindonova and Vereshchaka, 1991
- Apex of rostral plate blunt. Eyestalk longer than cornea. Telson apex armed with seven serrate setae.....
P. liui
Wang, 1998