A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
Author
Zeidler, Wolfgang
text
Zootaxa
2004
2004-07-14
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1
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Superfamily
PHRONIMOIDEA
Bowman & Gruner, 1973
Diagnosis
Antennae 1 inserted on anterior surface of head; flagellum of males long and filiform, composed of enlarged first article (callynophore), usually with dense brush of aesthestascs medially, and a series of shorter distal articles; flagellum of females onearticulate. Antennae 2 also inserted on anterior surface of head; reduced to few articles, rudimentary or absent in females; in males flagellum is long, multiarticulate, similar to A1 (rudimentary in male
Phronima sedentaria
). Pereopod 5 sometimes with large subchela. Developing eggs and young held in brood pouch underneath pereon, made up of oostegites on pereonites 2–5.
Seven families:
Phronimidae
,
Phrosinidae
,
Hyperiidae
,
Dairellidae
,
Lestrigonidae
fam. nov.
,
Bougisidae
fam. nov.
and
Iulopididae
fam. nov.