Seven new species of the genus Xestoleberis (Ostracoda: Podocopida: Cytheroidea) from the Fiji Archipelago
Author
Chand, Prerna
Author
Kamiya, Takahiro
text
Zootaxa
2016
4208
4
325
348
journal article
37401
10.11646/zootaxa.4208.4.2
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1175-5326
208330
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Genus:
Xestoleberis
Sars, 1866
Species of the genus
Xestoleberis
are characterized by the following features. Each valve has a crescent shaped scar known as the
Xestoleberis
-spot behind the eye (
Athersuch et al. 1989
). The valves are smooth, strongly inflated and with a range of shapes; from reniform, trigonal to ovate. The females are usually bigger than males; females have wide brood spaces in the posterior region of the valve. An1 has six podomeres, An2 has a well developed twojointed exopodite spinneret seta and three endopodite podomeres terminating into two stout chelate claws. Males have a pair of brush-shaped organs situated between the first and second pair of thoracic legs. The thoracic appendages are walking legs and the distal processes of the hemipenes are asymmetrical.