Results of the DIVA 1 Expedition of RV “ Meteor ” (Cruise M 48: 1): Three new species of Munnopsidae Sars, 1864 from abyssal depths of the Angola Basin (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota) *
Author
Mursch, Andre
Author
Brenke, Nils
Author
Wägele, Johann Wolfgang
text
Zootaxa
2008
1866
493
539
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.183789
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183789
Munneurycope
Stephensen, 1913
Munneurycope
Stephensen, 1913
: 99
;
Wolff, 1962
: 154
.
Eurycope
Sars, 1864
(partim)
Hansen, 1916
: 138
Diagnosis
of
Munneurycope
(modified from
Wolff, 1962
)
Streamlined
Munnopsidae
without sharply defined frontal area or rostrum, frons dorsally projecting between peduncular articles of antenna 1. Pereonite 1 (sometimes pereonite 1 and 2) longest of natasome. Pereonites 5–7 free and moveable and usually with a median furrow. Pleotelson not fused with pereonite 7, halfcylindrical in crosssection, caudally broadly rounded in dorsal view. First peduncular article of antenna 1 distally rounded, longer than wide or length subequal to width, with small or absent medial lobe. Chewing area of molar process strongly excavated, proximal margin with strong, serrated cusps. Epipodite of maxilliped narrow. Basis of pereopod 1 longer and mostly narrower than those of pereopods 2–4. Male pleopods 1 at most very moderately narrowed in the middle; pleopod 2 with robust stylet. Uropod biramous, with slender exopod and endopod.