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
126b5f67-71bb-46e4-874c-7f8864ea8cd1
1175-5326
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Caspicolidae Birstein, 1945
Type
genus.
Caspicola
Derzhavin, 1945
.
Diagnostic description.
Body laterally compressed. Eyes well developed, round. Antennae 1–2 calceoli absent.
Antenna 1
subequal in length to antenna 2, or longer than antenna 2; peduncular article 1 longer than article 2; article 2 subequal to, or 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
reduced or absent;
palp symmetrical
. Maxilla 1 inner plate apically setose; palp symmetrical. Coxal gills number and sequence not known, not stalked; sternal gills absent; sternal blisters absent; oostegites fringing setae simple. Gnathopod 1 chelate; smaller (or weaker) than gnathopod 2; propodus palm without robust setae along palmar margin. Gnathopod 2 chelate; dissimilar in males and females (sexually dimorphic); carpus not produced along posterior margin of propodus, projecting between merus and carpus. Pereopods 3–4 not sexually dimorphic. Pereopods 3–4 not sexually dimorphic. Pereopod 4 without posteroventral lobe. Pereopod 5 shorter than pereopod 6; coxa with large anteroventral lobe. Pereopod 7 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 seta (robust or simple).
Uropod 3
not sexually dimorphic;
uniramous
, without plumose setae.
Telson deeply cleft
; dorsal or lateral robust setae absent; apical robust setae present.
Habitat.
Freshwater, epigean.
Included genera.
Caspicola
Birstein, 1945
.
Distribution.
Caspian Sea.