A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Author
Myers, A
text
Zootaxa
2013
3610
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3610.1.1
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1175-5326
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Pachyschesidae Kamaltynov, 1999
Type
genus.
Pachyschesis
Bazikalova, 1945
.
Diagnostic description.
Body laterally compressed. Eyes well developed, poorly developed or absent, if present then round, ovoid, reniform, ventrally tapered or subrectangular. Antennae 1–2 calceoli absent. Antenna 1 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 short or minute.
Antenna 2 peduncular article 1 enlarged, bulbous
. Mandible palp symmetrical. Maxilla 1 basal endite apically setose; palps symmetrical. Maxilla 2 basal endite without oblique setal row. Labium inner lobes vestigial or absent. Coxal gills on pereopods 2–6, not stalked; sternal gills absent; sternal blisters absent; oostegites fringing setae simple. Gnathopod 1 subchelate; similar in males and females (not sexually dimorphic); similar in size to gnathopod 2; propodus palm without robust setae along palmar margin. Gnathopod 2 subchelate; similar in males and females (not sexually dimorphic); carpus not produced along posterior margin of propodus, projecting between merus and propodus. Pereopods 3–4 not sexually dimorphic.
Pereopod 4 without posteroventral lobe
.
Pereopod 5 subequal in length to pereopod 6
; coxa with large or with small anteroventral lobe. Pereopod 7 subequal in length to pereopod 5. Pleonites 1–3 without dorsal carinae.
Urosomites
1–3 free;
with 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; biramous, with plumose setae;
endopod shorter than exopod
.
Telson deeply cleft
; dorsal or lateral robust setae absent; apical robust setae absent.
Habitat.
Freshwater, epigean.
Included genera.
Pachyschesis
Bazikalova, 1945
.
Distribution.
Lake Baikal.