A revision of the genus Paracallisoma Chevreux, 1903 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Scopelocheiridae: Paracallisominae) with a redescription of the type species of the genus Paracallisoma and the description of two new genera and two new species from the Atlantic Ocean
Author
Horton, Tammy
Author
Thurston, Michael H.
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Zootaxa
2015
3995
1
91
132
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.12
8d98ec7c-9eda-448b-a63c-cc951edec20d
1175-5326
233262
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Key to the genera of
Paracallisominae
1. Gnathopod 1, basis expanded (glandular?).................................................................. 2
- Gnathopod 1, basis ordinary............................................................................. 4
2. Maxilla 1, inner plate fully setose along medial margin........................................................
3
- Maxilla 1, inner plate with only 1 pappose apical seta..............................................
Anisocallisoma
3. Maxilliped palp article 4 vestigial; posteroventral lobe of pereopod 4 coxa strongly narrowed, subacute..........
Tayabasa
- Maxilliped palp article 4 well developed; posteroventral lobe of pereopod 4 coxa broad, subquadrate..........
Eucallisoma
4. Pereopods 3 to 7 or only pereopods 3 and 4 strongly prehensile................................................. 5
- Pereopods 3 to 7 not prehensile........................................................................... 6
5. Pereopods 3 and 4 prehensile; gnathopod 1 elongate, slender, longer than gnathopod 2; pereopods 3 and 4 carpus strongly com- pressed, shorter than wide; pereopod 5 basis subrectangular......................................
Scopelocheiropsis
- Pereopods 3 to 7 prehensile; gnathopod 1 not elongate, robust, subequal to gnathopod 2; pereopods 3 and 4 carpus longer than wide; pereopod 5 basis suboval.......................................................
Haptocallisoma
gen. nov.
6. Coxae 1 and 2 tapering distally........................................................................... 7
- Coxae 1 and 2 subrectangular, not tapering distally........................................................... 8
7. Maxilla 1 palp 2-articulate, maxilliped palp article 4 well developed........................
Pseudocallisoma
gen. nov.
- Maxilla 1 palp 1-articulate, maxilliped palp article 4 absent........................................
Austrocallisoma
8. Pereopod 5 basis subcircular; gnathopod 1 propodus strongly tapering................................
Bathycallisoma
-
Pereopod 5 basis pyriform; gnathopod 1 propodus subrectangular....................................
Paracallisoma