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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Iphigenellidae Kamaltynov, 2001
Type
genus.
Iphigenella
Sars, 1896
.
Diagnostic description.
Body laterally compressed. Eyes well developed, ovoid or reniform. 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 short. Antennae 1–2 calceoli absent. Antenna 2 peduncular article 1 enlarged, bulbous. Mandible molar triturative; palp symmetrical. Maxilla 1 basal endite setose along medial margin; palps symmetrical. Coxal gills [not known]; sternal gills absent; sternal blisters absent; oostegites fringing setae simple.
Gnathopod 1
subchelate; similar in males and females (not sexually dimorphic);
larger (or stouter) than 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 with small posteroventral lobe.
Pereopod 5
shorter than pereopod 6 or subequal in length to pereopod 6;
coxa equilobate
. Pereopod 7 subequal in length to, or longer than pereopod 5. Pleonites 1–3 without dorsal carinae. Urosomites 1–3 free; with slender or robust dorsal setae. Urosomite 1 with large distoventral robust seta. Urosomite 2 without dorsal setae. Uropod 1 without basofacial robust setae. Uropod 3 not sexually dimorphic; biramous, without plumose setae; endopod minute.
Telson deeply cleft
; dorsal or lateral robust setae absent; apical robust setae present.
Habitat.
Freshwater, commensal on decapods, epigean.
Included genera.
Iphigenella
Sars, 1896
.
Distribution.
Caspian, Black and Azov Seas and associated rivers.