On the Atlantic species of the genus Abyssianira Menzies, 1956 (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae)
Author
Doti, Brenda Lía
Author
Roccatagliata, Daniel
text
Zootaxa
2006
1252
1
35
journal article
50583
10.5281/zenodo.173029
31f40c8c-9e4b-401d-a751-5fb0e6ee1abb
11755326
173029
Genus
Abyssianira
Menzies, 1956
Type
species
:
Abyssianira dentifrons
Menzies, 1956
Diagnosis: (Emended after
Just, 1990
)
Head dipping steeply downward and curving into a thin horizontal frontal plate (not in
A. argentenensis
), which is distally convex and denticulate. Eyestalks prominent, apically rounded or pointed, without ocelli. Pereonites 5–
7
set apart from anterior four. Coxal plates visible in dorsal view on at least pereonites 5–7. Lateral margins of pleotelson denticulate. Antenna, article 3 slightly longer than broad and distinctly shorter than article 5. Mandible palp present, molar process cylindrical with truncate apex. Uropods with distinct protopod and biramous, inserted dorsally just inside lateral margin.