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Genus
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Gurjanova, 1934
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<emphasis id="B9645C769437927ECDA338326E6DF9FC" box="[151,258,1597,1619]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="269">Melitoides</emphasis>
Gurjanova, 1934: 127
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.—
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.—
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.—
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.—Jarrett &amp;
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species.
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Gurjanova, 1934: 127
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.
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<emphasis id="B9645C769437927ECDF338CD6E71F974" bold="true" box="[199,286,1730,1755]" pageId="32" pageNumber="269">Species</emphasis>
. Including the new species described here,
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contains three species (
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):
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<emphasis id="B9645C769437927ECC2738E86ECDF951" box="[275,418,1766,1790]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="269">M. makarovi</emphasis>
Gurjanova, 1934
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,
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(?)
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<emphasis id="B9645C769437927ECF8A38E96C6BF951" box="[702,772,1766,1790]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="269">valida</emphasis>
(
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)
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and
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<emphasis id="B9645C769437927EC92338E86BE8F951" box="[1047,1159,1766,1790]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="269">M. kawaii</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A257E10D9437927EC9B938E96B88F950" box="[1165,1255,1766,1791]" pageId="32" pageNumber="269" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<emphasis id="B9645C769437927ECDF339056E55F88C" bold="true" box="[199,314,1802,1827]" pageId="32" pageNumber="269">Diagnosis</emphasis>
(from
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with addition). Pereon segments without dorsal teeth and denticles. Pleon segment 1 smooth; pleon 23 or only pleon 3 with mid-dorsal tooth or with few small dorsal teeth. Urosome segments 1 &amp; 2 mid-dorsally toothed. Head with single inferior antennal notch. Antennae regular.
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Mouthparts regular. Upper lip shallow notched. Lower lip regular, inner lobes large. Mandible, spine row with few blades; left lacinia 4-dentate, right lacinia 5-dentate; palp segment 3 longer or shorter than 2; segment 1 short, lacking distinct cusp. Maxilla 1, inner plate tall, with medial and apical setae; outer plate with 9 apical tooth setae (Watling
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<date id="FFAEA6A49436927FCC0A3E976E00FF1F" box="[318,367,152,176]" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">III.1</date>
) (
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); palp segment 1 usually with shoulder setae; segment 2 slightly extended. Maxilla 2, inner plate with closely submarginal setae. Maxilliped, outer plate medium large; palp segment 2 columnar; dactylus medium.
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<paragraph id="8BAF80649436927FCDF33FB76D18FDB7" blockId="33.[151,1437,151,1040]" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">Coxa 6, anterior lobe not modified in female. Pereopod 4 shorter than 3. Pereopods 57 elongated from 5 to 7, basis of pereopods 5 &amp; 6 very large, broad, weakly lobate, base of pereopod 7 large, broad or narrow; segments 46 slender, attenuated; dactylus medium long.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAF80649436927FCDF33C2B6D10FD2B" blockId="33.[151,1437,151,1040]" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">Pleon plates 13, hind corners weakly or not acuminated. Uropods 1 &amp; 2 regular, rami linear. Uropod 3, inner ramus scale-like, outer ramus short, second segment of outer ramus absent or vestigial. Telson lobes fused basally, apices sub-truncate, with single strong seta.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAF80649436927FCDF33C806B2AFD07" blockId="33.[151,1437,151,1040]" box="[199,1093,655,680]" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">Coxal gills 24 medium, 5 and 6 indistinctly smaller. Brood plates undescribed.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FCDF33CBB6E0FFD62" bold="true" box="[199,352,692,717]" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">Distribution.</emphasis>
Marine waters of boreal Pacific and Arctic shore.
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<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FCDF33CD86E54FD5F" bold="true" box="[199,315,727,752]" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">Remarks.</emphasis>
According to Jarrett &amp;
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, this genus is a marginal member of the
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group of genera, differing in a number of character states, including the total reduction of the terminal segment of uropod 3, and the basally fused lobes of telson. The description of new species
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<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FC90F3D2E6BC1FC97" box="[1083,1198,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">M. kawaii</emphasis>
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(see below) and the incomplete description of
<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FCCFD3D4A6E87FCF3" box="[457,488,837,860]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">M.</emphasis>
(?)
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<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FCF293D4B6D0CFCF3" box="[541,611,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">valida</emphasis>
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(Schoemaker, 1955: description of the uropod 3 is missing, indistinct picture) do not allow to consider the total reduction of terminal segment of outer ramus of uropod 3 as a valid sign.
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Jarrett &amp;
<bibRefCitation id="EF81FD959436927FCC043D836E81FC0A" box="[304,494,908,933]" pageId="33" pageNumber="270" refString="Jarret, N. E. &amp; Bousfield, E. L. (1996) The Amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, II (2), 3 - 74." type="journal article">Bousfield (1996)</bibRefCitation>
tentatively attributed
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<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FCFD03D826C20FC0B" box="[740,847,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">M. valida</emphasis>
(Schoemaker, 1955)
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to the genus
<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FC9F83D836A3FFC0B" box="[1228,1360,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">Melithoides</emphasis>
. Signs which pulls together
<taxonomicName id="4C10FBE79436927FCCB13DBE6E9DFC67" box="[389,498,944,968]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Melitoides" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="33" pageNumber="270" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="valida">
<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FCCB13DBE6E9DFC67" box="[389,498,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">M. valida</emphasis>
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to the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C10FBE79436927FCFBF3DBF6C7BFC67" box="[651,788,944,968]" class="Malacostraca" family="Melitidae" genus="Quasimelita" kingdom="Animalia" order="Amphipoda" pageId="33" pageNumber="270" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FCFBF3DBF6C7BFC67" box="[651,788,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">Quasimelita</emphasis>
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: specifics of the dorsal armament, the shape of the pleon plate 3 with produced hind corner, the shape of telson with subapically notched lobes.
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<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FC9553DDA6BA3FC43" box="[1121,1228,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">M. valida</emphasis>
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close to the genus
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<emphasis id="B9645C769436927FCDA33DF76E62FBBF" box="[151,269,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="270">Melitoides</emphasis>
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on the armament of pereopod 2, on the shape of coxa 14, on the morphology of uropod 3.
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