Tirons of the world: a review of ‘ tironid’ amphipods, description of new genera and species, and establishment of a new subfamily Tironinae Stebbing, 1906 stat. nov. (Crustacea, Synopiidae)
Author
Just, Jean
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-05-23
5139
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Key to the genera in
Tironinae
(See also
Fig. 1
)
1. Pereopods 3–7 dactylus short, with curved robust seta countering short curved unguis, (pre-stubby,
Fig. 1 b
)............. 2
- Pereopods 3–7(6) dactylus and unguis strongly modified and complex, with curved robust seta countering modified unguis, (stubby,
Figs1a
,
38x
).................................................................................. 3
2. Head in lateral view evenly curved to downward pointed acute rostrum, eyes and accessory eyes present, coxal plate 3 rectangular, uropod 1 outer ramus of single article, reaching well beyond uropod 2.....................
Tiron
Lilljeborg, 1865
- Head in lateral view with anterior front rounded, dorsal and anterior margins straight, at right angle; rostrum apex sharply pointed at 90° angle; interantennal lateral head margin with about 100° blunt projection; coxal plate 3 widening distally to broadly rounded apex and slight posterodistal concavity; uropod 1 barely reaching end of uropod 2, uropod 3 outer ramus of single article...........................................................................
Tironella
gen. nov.
3. Mandible palp present; uropod 3 outer ramus with small article 2, uropod peduncles, and telson with rows of elongate glands....................................................................................................4
- Mandible palp absent; uropod 3 outer ramus of single article, urosome without glands............................... 5
4. Mandible palp article 2 straight; coxal plates 3–4 pelagont (see key to family, notes and
Fig.1
)..
P
s
eudotiron
Chevreux, 1895
- Mandible palp article 2 curved, coxal plates 3–4 similar, not pelagont.........................
Glandulotiron
gen. nov.
5. Gnathopod 1 basis straight (
Fig. 43a
), maxilla 1 outer plate with broad oblique row of spine-setae (
Fig. 43b
).........................................................................................
Metatiron
Rabindranath, 1972
- Gnathopod 1 basis strongly curved (
Fig. 43c
), maxilla 1 outer plate with narrowly amassed group of elongate, apically curved spine-setae (
Fig. 43d
)....................................................................
Minitiron
gen. nov.