On the Mysid Crustacean Genus Deltamysis (Mysidae: Heteromysinae), with a New Species and a New Record from Australia
Author
Daneliya, Mikhail E.
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Records of the Australian Museum
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1881
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10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1881
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Mysidetini Holt & Tattersall, 1906
Mysidetinae Holt & W. M. Tattersall, 1906: 39.—W. M. Tattersall, 1908: 32.—Zimmer, 1909: 45, 46, 139.
Mysidetini
.—Wittmann
et al
., 2014: 341.—Wittmann & Wirtz, 2017: 147.—Wittmann & Ariani, 2019: 5.—
Daneliya, 2021: 5
, 6, 46.—Scripter
et al
., 2020: 504.—
Kou
et al
., 2020: 3
.
Type
genus
.
Mysidetes
Holt & Tattersall, 1906
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
. Pereopod 1 endopod not differentiated from pereopod 2 endopod, not prehensile, with multisegmented carpopropodus. All pleopods reduced to simple plates in both sexes.
Comparison
.
Mysidetini
is distinguished from other heteromysine tribes by the multisegmented carpopropodus of the pereopod 1 (at least 3-segmented). From the tribe
Heteromysini
it also differs by the similarity of the pereopods 1 and 2. In
Heteromysini
, the pereopod 1 endopod is prehensile and 2-segmented (except in
Platyops stenoura
[
Hanamura & Kase, 2004
], in which it is 3-segmented), and pereopod 2 endopod is normal, multisegmented. An additional feature separates
Mysidetini
from
Harmelinellini
: the rudimentary nature of all pleopods in both sexes. In
Harmelinellini
, the male pleopod 3 is uniquely long and 2-segmented.
Remarks
. Originally, this taxon was designated as a subfamily within
Mysidae (Holt & W. M. Tattersall, 1906)
for a single genus
Mysidetes
Holt & Tattersall, 1906
. Closely resembling
Mysidellinae Czerniavsky, 1882
and
Heteromysinae
in the antennal scale, pleopods, and telson, Mysidetinae Holt & Tattersall, 1906 was distinguished from the two mentioned subfamilies by the structure of the maxilliped 1 (termed as “maxillipede” or “first thoracic limb”) and the pereopod 1, respectively, and from
Leptomysinae
only by the reduced pleopods in both sexes. The characters proposed by Holt & W. M. Tattersall (1906) and Zimmer (1909) were not sufficiently diagnostic to maintain separate status of the subfamily (
Hansen, 1910
,
1913
). In a century, Wittmann
et al
. (2014) re-established the taxon in the status of a tribe within
Heteromysinae
and included eight genera:
Bermudamysis
Băcescu & Iliffe, 1986
,
Burrimysis
Jaume & Garcia, 1993
,
Deltamysis
,
Kochimysis
,
Mysidetes
,
Mysifaun
Wittmann, 1996
,
Platyops
Băcescu & Iliffe, 1986
, and
Pseudomysidetes
W. M. Tattersall, 1936
. All members of
Mysidetini
shared normal, not prehensile pereopods with the multisegmented carpopropodus, the rudimentary, non-modified and non-dimorphic pleopods, and the telson lateral margins with spiniform setae in the distal part only. Certain species of
Mysidetes
have the telson lateral spiniform setae along the entire length (
M. dimorpha
O. S. Tattersall, 1955
,
M. hanseni
Zimmer, 1914
,
M. microps
O. S. Tattersall, 1955
,
M. morbihanensis
Ledoyer, 1995
, and
M. posthon
Holt & W. M. Tattersall, 1906
) or separated by a gap (
M. antarctica
O. S. Tattersall, 1965
, and
M. crassa
Hansen, 1913
), which means that this character is not suitable for the diagnosis.
In composing the new diagnosis, I exclude all variable characters, including the size of the male process on the antennulae, the number of the oostegites, the shape of the penes and the telson. In the previous work (
Daneliya, 2021
), I revised the diagnosis of
Heteromysini
and transferred
Platyops
and
Bermudamysis
into the redefined tribe. However, I did not provide a revised diagnosis of
Mysidetini
, which is specifically done here.
Composition
. The tribe
Mysidetini
contains five genera:
Burrimysis
,
Deltamysis
,
Mysidetes
,
Mysifaun
,
and
Pseudomysidetes
.