The taxonomic status of Hymenodora (Crustacea: Oplophoroidea): morphological and molecular analyses suggest a new family and an undescribed diversity deep in the sea
Author
Lunina, Anastasiia
Author
Kulagin, Dmitry
Author
Vereshchaka, Alexander
alv@ocean.ru
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2024
Zool. J. Linn. Soc.
2023-08-14
200
2
336
351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad077
journal article
296805
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad077
a5f57d75-9b7c-46dc-b11f-ee2fc4200e29
0024-4082
11239996
E48CE650-52B3-4853-9249-D228B9E00306C
Superfamily
Oplophoroidea Dana, 1852
Diagnosis (after
Chace 1986
, amended):
Rostrum immovably attached to carapace; antennular flagella simple, without accessory branches; mandible with palp, molar and incisor processes not deeply separated; third maxilliped elongate, five-segmented, with well-developed exopod; all pereopods with well-developed exopod, pereopods 1–3 with strap-like epipod, pereopods 1 and 2 with well-developed chela and undivided carpus, pereopods 3–5 moderately long, carpus shorter than propodus; pleopods bearing appendices interna.