On the Austral-Antarctic stenothoids Proboloides, Metopoides, Torometopa and Scaphodactylus (Crustacea Amphipoda) Part 2: the genus Proboloides, with description of two new genera and the transfer of two nominal species to Metopoides
Author
Krapp-Schickel, Traudl
text
ZooKeys
2011
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11
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.86.785
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.86.785
1313-2970-86-11
Malvinometopa
gen. n.
Type species.
Proboloides porcellanus
KH Barnard, 1932
Diagnostic characters.
Md palp with 3 arts, Mxp IP separated; Mx1, 2 unknown; A1, 2 peduncle strong, flagellum reduced to 4-6 arts. Cx4 not much wider than Cx2+3. P5 basis rectolinear, with small posterodistal lobe. P6, 7 basis narrowing distad, both with posterodistal small lobe reaching along half of ischium.
Etymology.
The type species was collected from the pharynx of a large ascidian in the Falkland Islands, in Spanish Islas Malvinas.
Remarks.
This genus has a posterodistal lobe on P5 basis like the members of
Torometopa
; itis different from all other known stenothoid genera by the rectangularly widened, distally narrowing basis of P6, 7. In
Metopella
and
Mesoproboloides
P5 is rectolinear without a posterodistal lobe, P6, 7 are differently widened; in
Hardametopa
P5-7 all have a slender basis. The genera
Metopelloides
,
Stenothoides
,
Vonimetopa
and
Zaikometopa
differ in having a 1-articulate Md palp, while the palp is absent in
Parametopella
.