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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Gammaroporeiidae Bousfield, 1978
Type
genus.
Gammaroporeia
Bousfield, 1978
.
Diagnostic description.
Body laterally compressed. Eyes small, round. 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 minute.
Antenna 2 peduncular article 1 not enlarged
. Mandible molar triturating; palp symmetrical. Maxilla 1 basal endite setose along medial margin; palps symmetrical. Maxilla 2 basal endite with oblique setal row.
Coxal gills
on pereopods 2–6,
not stalked
; sternal gills absent; sternal blisters absent; oostegites fringing setae simple.
Gnathopod 1
subchelate; dissimilar in males and females (sexually dimorphic); similar in size to, or larger (or stouter) than gnathopod 2;
propodus palm with peg-like 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 small posteroventral lobe. Pereopod 5 shorter than or subequal in length to pereopod 6; coxa with small anteroventral lobe. Pereopod 7 subequal in length to, or longer than 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; biramous, without plumose setae; endopod minute or shorter than exopod.
Telson moderately cleft
; dorsal or lateral robust setae absent;
apical robust setae absent
.
Habitat.
Marine, estuarine, epigean.
Included genera.
Gammaroporeia
Bousfield, 1978
.
Distribution.
Alaska.