Tirons of the world: a review of ‘ tironid’ amphipods, description of new genera and species, and establishment of a new subfamily Tironinae Stebbing, 1906 stat. nov. (Crustacea, Synopiidae)
Author
Just, Jean
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-05-23
5139
1
1
89
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journal article
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Key to species of
Minitiron
gen. nov.
1. Maxilla 1 palp reduced, half-length of outer plate, with a single simple seta; inner plate narrow, pointed, nearly as long as outer plate, with spaced row of small setae along medial margin; mandible with long simple seta in place of palp................................................................................................
M. bellairsi
(
Just, 1981
)
- Maxilla 1 palp reaching to about apex of outer plate setal spines, with a few apical peg-like setae, inner plate stout, subequal in length to outer plate, with a few apical setae on apex, mandible without seta in place of palp.......................... 2
2. Maxilliped outer plate concave medially to pointed apex...................................................... 3
- Maxilliped outer plate with normal truncate or rounded apex................................................... 4
3. Coxal plate 1 twice as long as broad, anterior margin broadly pointing in middle, rounded distally; pereopod 7 basis posterior margin evenly convex with regular crenation..............................
M. galeatus
(
Hirayama, 1988
)
comb. nov.
- Coxal plate 1 about 1.5 longer than broad, widest distally, anterior margin nearly straight...............................................................................................
M. thompsoni
(
Walker, 1904
)
comb. nov.
4. Head lateral front lobe rounded truncate; coxal plate 1 anterior margin broadly rounded; coxal plate 3 distal half widening to near twice width of proximal half, with rounded anterodistal projection...........
M. caecus
(
Ledoyer, 1979
)
comb. nov.
- Head lateral front lobe pointed or rounded right angle; coxal plate 1 anterior margin not broadly rounded; coxal plate 3 anterior margin straight, posterior margin with projection in distal half.................................................. 5
5. Maxilla 1 inner plate margins parallel, apex blunt with 3 pectinate setae; coxal plate 1 wide-angle rounded, anterior margin with broad 90% triangular projection; coxal plate 3 with angular, slightly crenate posterior margin and midposterior projection; pleonites 1–3 posterodistal corners acute.................................
M. ovatibasis
(
Hirayama, 1988
)
comb. nov.
- Maxilla 1 inner plate tapering, apex blunt with a few setae; coxal plate 1 anterior margin straight; coxal plate 3 midposterior projection broadly rounded wide-angled; pleonites 1–3 posterodistal corners rounded.................
M. orpheus
sp. nov.