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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFF72FB0EFEE186F2" bold="true" box="[151,355,1158,1185]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Mauritiorchestia</emphasis>
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species.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFEDCFB47FDCB86BA" box="[313,585,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Mauritiorchestia fayetta</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFF22FB7BFE10875F" bold="true" box="[199,402,1266,1293]" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Included species.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFE7DFB7BFDD7875E" box="[408,597,1267,1293]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Mauritiorchestia</emphasis>
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is currently monotypic.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFF22FA9EFEB98763" bold="true" box="[199,315,1302,1328]" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Category.</emphasis>
Mascupod.
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Ecological
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. Sand-hopper.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFF22FAD7FECC872A" bold="true" box="[199,334,1375,1401]" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Etymology.</emphasis>
A compound noun derived from the name of the country and the name of a related genus.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFF22FA0AFE6087CF" bold="true" box="[199,482,1410,1436]" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Diagnostic description (</emphasis>
male
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFF22FA2FFE8C8792" bold="true" box="[199,270,1447,1473]" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Head.</emphasis>
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short, not reaching midpoint of peduncular article 5 of antenna 2.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFB75FA2FFEEF87B7" bold="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFB75FA2FFA888792" bold="true" box="[1168,1290,1447,1473]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Antenna 2</emphasis>
peduncular articles incrassate
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.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFE9EFA43FE6487B6" box="[379,486,1483,1509]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Mandible</emphasis>
left lacinia mobilis 5-cuspidate.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFCB1FA42FC4187B6" bold="true" box="[852,963,1482,1509]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Maxilla 1</emphasis>
palp absent
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.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFB84FA43FB3587B6" box="[1121,1207,1483,1509]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Labium</emphasis>
without inner lobes.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFF72FA67FE92845A" box="[151,272,1519,1545]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Maxilliped</emphasis>
palp article 2 with distomedial lobe; article 4 fused with article 3.
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Pereon.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFECEF99AFE41847E" bold="true" box="[299,451,1554,1581]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Gnathopod 1</emphasis>
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sexually dimorphic; subchelate; coxa much smaller that coxa 2;
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; propodus anterior margin with 4 groups of robust setae, subtriangular with well-developed posterodistal lobe, palm transverse; dactylus
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFB92F9D2FAAF8427" bold="true" box="[1143,1325,1626,1652]" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">simplidactylate</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFAD9F9D2FF5784CA" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Gnathopod 2</emphasis>
sexually dimorphic; subchelate;
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFDA6F9F7FCBE84CA" bold="true" box="[579,828,1663,1689]" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">propodus palm acute</emphasis>
, rounded distally and sinuous, with small to large midpalmar sinus, without proximal sinus, without large distal sinus, without proximal spine or thumb defining palm; without large projection near dactylar hinge; dactylus not modified distally, blunt, fitting into sulcus internally.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFF72F963FEC28556" box="[151,320,1771,1797]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Pereopods 35</emphasis>
cuspidactylate,
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simplidactylate.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFD00F963FCE58556" box="[741,871,1771,1797]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Pereopod 4</emphasis>
significantly shorter than pereopod 3; carpus significantly shorter than that of pereopod 3; dactylus amplidactylate, thickened proximally with notch midway along posterior margin.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFEB8F8BBFE5E851F" box="[349,476,1842,1869]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Pereopod 6</emphasis>
subequal in length to pereopod 7; not sexually dimorphic; basis moderately expanded; male merus expanded, carpus not expanded.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF21BC21FFD69F8DFFC8F8522" box="[652,781,1879,1905]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="296">Pereopod 7</emphasis>
not sexually dimorphic; basis broadly expanded, posterior margin smooth or minutely serrate margin without setae, posterodistal lobe present, rounded, produced downwards almost to merus; merus expanded distally, subtriangular, anterior margin slightly straight; carpus expanded, subrectangular, slightly shorter than propodus; propodus slender.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFF22FF1FFE9382E2" bold="true" box="[199,273,151,177]" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Pleon.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFEFFFF1FFE3682E2" box="[282,436,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Pleopods 13</emphasis>
all well-developed.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFD7BFF1EFC8E82E2" bold="true" box="[670,780,150,177]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Uropod 1</emphasis>
peduncle distolateral robust seta absent;
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFB07FF1FFE1C8286" bold="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">exopod without marginal robust setae</emphasis>
; endopod with marginal robust setae in 1 row.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFC59FF33FBAA8286" box="[956,1064,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Uropod 2</emphasis>
exopod without marginal robust setae; endopod with marginal robust setae in 1 row.
<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFD0DFF57FCD682AA" box="[744,852,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Uropod 3</emphasis>
ramus subequal in length to peduncle.
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completely cleft, with 6 robust setae per lobe.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFF22FEAFFEB98312" bold="true" box="[199,315,295,321]" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFEA6FEAFFD828312" box="[323,512,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Mauritiorchestia</emphasis>
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is a distinctive Indian Ocean genus. Based on an incrassate second antenna, gnathopod 1 with palmate lobes on the carpus and propodus and uropod 1 exopod without marginal robust setae, it is most similar to the north-western Pacific genus
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFD40FEE7FCB283DA" box="[677,816,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Sinorchestia</emphasis>
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and the wide-ranging genus
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFF72FE1BFEAF83FE" box="[151,301,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Platorchestia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF954B08F218C21CFED1FE1BFE6883FE" author="Bousfield, E. L." box="[308,490,403,429]" pageId="2" pageNumber="297" pagination="1 - 73" refId="ref2638" refString="Bousfield, E. L. (1982) The amphipod superfamily Talitroidea in the northeastern Pacific region. Family Talitridae. Systematics and distributional ecology. National. Museum of Natural Science, Publications in Biological Oceanography, 11, i - vii + 1 - 73." type="journal article" year="1982">Bousfield, 1982</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFE10FE1BFD0283FE" box="[501,640,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Sinorchestia</emphasis>
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differs significantly from
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFC42FE1BFBE683FE" box="[935,1124,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Mauritiorchestia</emphasis>
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in having a ventral plate on the third peduncular article of antenna 2, a parachelate first gnathopod and a large posteroproximal sinus on the dactylus of gnathopod 2.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFE6FFE53FDA283A6" box="[394,544,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Platorchestia</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFD57FE53FCED83A6" box="[690,879,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Mauritiorchestia</emphasis>
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mainly in having a cuspidactylate first gnathopod and the exopod of uropod 2 with marginal robust setae in one row.
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<emphasis id="B970EAEBF218C21CFF22FDAAFEE3806F" bold="true" box="[199,353,546,572]" pageId="2" pageNumber="297">Distribution.</emphasis>
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, Western Indian Ocean.
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