A new species of the amphipod genus Quadrivisio (Senticaudata, Maeridae) from Chilika Lagoon, India
Author
Bhoi, Gitanjali
Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Bhanja Bihar, Odisha- 760007, India.
Author
Myers, Alan A.
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland.
Author
Tarafdar, Lipika
Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Bhanja Bihar, Odisha- 760007, India.
Author
Smita, Moili
Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Bhanja Bihar, Odisha- 760007, India.
Author
Jena, Ajay Kumar
Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Bhanja Bihar, Odisha- 760007, India.
Author
Patro, Shesdev
Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Bhanja Bihar, Odisha- 760007, India.
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-03-16
5256
1
36
42
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.2
1175-5326
7745263
534EEABE-292D-4E9D-B2DC-4FBAF0643D9A
Identification key to species of
Quadrivisio
(updated after
Gnohossou and Piscart, 2019
)
1. Carina absent on pleonites or urosome in males and females.................................................... 2
– Carina present on pleonites or urosome in males and/or females................................................ 6
2. Male gnathopod 2 propodus palm without posterodistal shelf......................
Q. chevreuxi
Gordon & Monod, 1968
– Male gnathopod 2 propodus palm with posterodistal shelf..................................................... 3
3. Male gnathopod 2 dactylus short, not reaching end of palm.......................... ..
Q. aviceps
(K.H.
Barnard, 1940
)
– Male gnathopod 2 dactylus subequal to palm length.......................................................... 4
4. Urosome and telson covered in dense setae; male gnathopod 2 propodus anterior margin produced into lobe.................................................................................................
Q. lobata
Asari, 1983
– Urosome and telson without dense setae; male gnathopod 2 anterior margin not produced.............................5
5. Posterior margin of pereopod 7 basis regularly convex, telson with robust setae along inner margins of each lobe...............................................................................
Q. sarina
Lowry & Springthorpe, 2005
– Posterior margin of pereopod 7 basis not convex, telson without robust setae along innermargins of each lobe.................................................................................
Q. laleyei
Gnohossou and Piscart, 2019
6. Telson with robust setae along inner margins of each lobe.............................
Q. bengalensis
Stebbing, 1907
– Telson without setae along inner margin of each lobe......................................................... 7
7. Epimeron 3 margin smooth............................................................................. 8
- Epimeron 3 margin with several tooth..................................................................... 9
8. Antennae 2 flagellum is nearly twice the length of the fifth peduncle............................
Q. chilikensis
sp. nov
.
– Antennae 2 flagellum is subequal to fifth peduncle......................................
Q. lutzi
(
Shoemaker, 1933
)
9. Accessory flagellum with 7 articles; mandibular palp articles 2–3 without setae....
Q. bousfieldi
Karaman & Barnard, 1979
- Accessory flagellum with 9–10 articles; mandibular palp articles 2–3 with setae ..........
Q. meufong
Hughes & Haji, 2016