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.