Remarks on the deep-sea genus Pseudolamprops (Cumacea: Lampropidae)
Author
Roccatagliata, Daniel
Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C 1428 EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: rocca @ bg. fcen. uba. ar
Author
Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Ute
Universität Hamburg, Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: muehsie @ zoologie. uni-hamburg. de
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-11-07
3542
69
79
journal article
1175-5326
218F1773-CEB0-421C-B982-71E1A571202A
Genus
Pseudolamprops
Gamô, 1989
Diagnosis (emended)
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Carapace with sparse teeth. Antero-lateral angle rounded and denticulate. Ocular lobe with teeth. Telson linguiform, armed with marginal setae (distal and laterally) and 2 subapical dorsal setae exceeding in length the marginal ones. Antennule with long and slender peduncle. Mandible widely truncate at the base. Maxillule palp with 2 setae. First maxilliped with a large dactylus with subapical (not apical) setae. Uropod endopod of 3 articles. Uropod exopod much shorter than the endopod, and composed of 2 subequal articles. Female with rudimentary exopods on pereopods 3 and 4. Male with flagellum of antenna reaching roughly to the end of the abdomen, and with 3 pairs of fully developed pleopods.
Type
species
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Pseudolamprops spinifer
Gamô, 1989a
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Distribution
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North and South Atlantic, East
China
Sea, and Antarctic. Depths:
1934–4928 m
.