A new species of Fageapseudes (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from California, with comments on the systematics of the family Apseudidae
Author
Drumm, David T.
Author
Bamber, Roger N.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3701
4
437
446
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3701.4.3
86323241-a46d-4342-a7b1-07bb52b8e883
1175-5326
221999
861B77EC-EC2D-4744-838C-3BD09D1C3CAB
Subfamily
Leviapseudinae Sieg, 1983
Leiopidae Lang, 1970: 603
.
Leiopinae
: Guţu, 1972: 302.
Leviapseudidae Sieg, 1980: 411
, 412 [nomen nudum].
Leviapseudinae Sieg, 1983: 163
.
Diagnosis.
(Modified after Larsen, 2005). Maxillipedal endite with or without inner caudodistal leaf-shaped seta. Cheliped and pereopod 1 with or without exopod. Pereopod 1 coxa with forward-pointing spine. Pereopod 1 dactylus and unguis not fused. Pereopod 4 dactylus often reduced and modified, more so in the male. Pereopods 5 and 6 propodus often with a ventral row of short setae. Pleopods present, reduced, or absent in females and present in males.
Type
genus.
Leviapseudes
Sieg, 1983
[=
Leiopus
Beddard, 1886
].
Genera included.
Carpoapseudes
Lang, 1968
;
Colobocladus
Guţu, 2006
;
Eliomosa
Guţu, 2006
;
Fageapseudes
Băcescu & Guţu, 1971
;
Leviapseudes
Sieg, 1983
.
Remarks.
Larsen (2005) and Guţu (2006) gave accounts of the taxonomic history of this subfamily and emphasized the difficulty distinguishing it from the subfamily
Apseudinae
. Members of this subfamily mostly inhabit deep waters.