A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Author
Myers, A
text
Zootaxa
2013
3610
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3610.1.1
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1175-5326
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Tulearidae Ledoyer, 1979
Type
genus.
Tulearus
Ledoyer, 1979
.
Diagnostic description.
Body laterally compressed. Eyes well developed, round. Antennae 1–2 calceoli absent. Antenna 1 subequal in length to, or longer than antenna 2; peduncular article 1 longer than article 2; article 2 longer than article 3; article 3 shorter than article 1; peduncular articles 1–2 not geniculate; accessory flagellum absent. Antenna 2 peduncular article 1 not enlarged. Mandible molar reduced or absent; palp absent. Maxilla 1 palps symmetrical. Coxal gills [not known]; sternal gills absent; sternal blisters absent; oostegites fringing setae simple. Gnathopod 1 subchelate; dissimilar in males and females (sexually dimorphic); smaller (or weaker) than gnathopod 2; propodus palm without robust setae along palmar margin. Gnathopod 2 subchelate; dissimilar in males and females (sexually dimorphic); carpus not produced along posterior margin of propodus, projecting between merus and propodus. Pereopods 3–4 not sexually dimorphic. Pereopod 4 with well developed posteroventral lobe.
Pereopod 5
subequal in length to pereopod 6;
coxa without lobes
. Pereopod 7 subequal in length to pereopod 5. Pleonites 1–3 without dorsal carinae. Urosomites 1–3 free; without slender or robust dorsal setae. Urosomite 1 without large distoventral robust seta. Urosomite 2 without dorsal setae. Uropod 1 without basofacial robust setae.
Uropod 3
not sexually dimorphic;
uniramous
.
Telson weakly cleft
; dorsal or lateral robust setae absent; apical robust setae present.
Habitat.
Marine, epigean.
Included genera
.
Tulearus
Ledoyer, 1979
.
Distribution.
Madagascar
.