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and
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Comparison of the new species to the different descriptions, figures, and specimens of
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revealed some inconsistencies in what are usually considered generic character states. In the
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highly consistent character in genus definitions. This is not the case in
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, as pleonal sutures differ in morphology and number. For example, in
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: fig. 37A), whereas in
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<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FB44FEF0FA9ADC1D" box="[1247,1399,349,378]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. persikolpos</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
there is a single suture on either side of the posterior margin of the pleon rather than the more usual two sutures. The sutures of the coxal plate are similarly not visible in some species (
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FB81FE51FBB9DF7F" authorityName="Storey" authorityYear="2002" box="[1050,1108,508,536]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sei">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FB81FE51FBB9DF7F" box="[1050,1108,508,536]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. sei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FBF9FE51FAEDDF7F" authorityName="Khalaji-Pirbalouty and Wagele" authorityYear="2009" box="[1122,1280,507,536]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="persikolpos">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FBF9FE51FAEDDF7F" box="[1122,1280,507,536]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. persikolpos</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FA96FE51FA82DF7F" authorityName="Anil and Jayaraj" authorityYear="2021" box="[1293,1391,507,536]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sikata">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FA96FE51FA82DF7F" box="[1293,1391,507,536]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. sikata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). The pereon and pleon of most species in the genus do not exhibit any dorsal ornamentation. In
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FB6DFDE6FBC1DFE8" authority="Kensley and Schotte, 1994" authorityName="Kensley and Schotte" authorityYear="1994" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="heardi">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FB6DFDE6FABADF00" box="[1270,1367,586,615]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. heardi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="C7464B6FFF977247FAC0FDE7FBC1DFE8" author="Kensley, B. &amp; Schotte, M." pageId="2" pageNumber="3" pagination="482 - 510" refId="ref5030" refString="Kensley, B. and Schotte, M. 1994. Marine isopods from the Lesser Antilles and Colombia (Crustacea: Peracarida). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 107: 482 - 510." type="journal article" year="1994">Kensley and Schotte, 1994</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
there is obvious sculpturing on the pleotelson, whereas in
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FB00FD37FA5EDFD1" box="[1179,1459,665,694]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FB00FD37FAD2DFD1" authorityName="Khalaji-Pirbalouty and Wagele" authorityYear="2009" box="[1179,1343,665,694]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="persikolpos">S. persikolpos</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FAD6FD37FA5EDFD1" authorityName="Anil and Jayaraj" authorityYear="2021" box="[1357,1459,665,694]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sikata">S. sikata</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
, and
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FCE6FD6FFC1DDFB9" authority="Anil, 2022" authorityName="Anil" authorityYear="2022" box="[893,1008,706,734]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jayaraji" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FCE6FD6FFC1DDFB9" box="[893,1008,706,734]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. jayaraji</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="8A9057F7FF977247FC6EFD6FFBA2DFB9" box="[1013,1103,706,734]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, there are some scattered setae on the surface of these sclerites. Among all known
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FCD6FCBDFBB1DE4A" box="[845,1116,784,813]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FCD6FCBDFC11DE4A" box="[845,1020,784,813]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Sphaeromopsis</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
, only
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FB32FCBCFAC5DE4A" authorityName="Schotte and Kensley" authorityYear="2005" box="[1193,1320,784,813]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sulcifera">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FB32FCBCFAC5DE4A" box="[1193,1320,784,813]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. sulcifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FAF3FCBCFA57DE4A" authorityName="Khalaji-Pirbalouty and Wagele" authorityYear="2009" box="[1384,1466,785,813]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sarii">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FAF3FCBCFA57DE4A" box="[1384,1466,785,813]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. sarii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have a faint longitudinal, dorso-medial furrow on the pleotelson. Moreover, the pleotelson varies in shape from broadly truncate in
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FB2CFC2AFAD3DEC3" authorityName="Holdich and Jones" authorityYear="1973" box="[1207,1342,903,932]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="amathitis">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FB2CFC2AFAD3DEC3" box="[1207,1342,903,932]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. amathitis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to broadly rounded in
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FC40FC02FBB4DEAC" authorityName="Javed and Yousuf" authorityYear="1995" box="[987,1113,943,971]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minutus">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FC40FC02FBB4DEAC" box="[987,1113,943,971]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. minutus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, to elongated with a narrow apex in
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FC3EFC7AFBADDE94" authorityName="Khalaji-Pirbalouty and Wagele" authorityYear="2009" box="[933,1088,982,1011]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="persikolpos">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FC3EFC7AFBADDE94" box="[933,1088,982,1011]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. persikolpos</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FBD0FC7AFB41DE94" authorityName="Anil and Jayaraj" authorityYear="2021" box="[1099,1196,982,1011]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sikata">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FBD0FC7AFB41DE94" box="[1099,1196,982,1011]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. sikata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FB71FC7AFAB0DE94" authority="Anil, 2022" authorityName="Anil" authorityYear="2022" box="[1258,1373,983,1011]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Sphaeromopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jayaraji" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FB71FC7AFAB0DE94" box="[1258,1373,983,1011]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">S. jayaraji</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="8A9057F7FF977247FAF9FC7AFA56DE94" box="[1378,1467,983,1011]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Lastly, the relative length of the uropodal rami varies somewhat, with the exopod ranging from slightly shorter than the endopod to longer than the endopod. This variation at the species level is not of generic merit, and therefore not comparable to the endopod being reduced to a stub (
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FBF6FB69FA5FD986" authority="Stebbing, 1910" authorityName="Stebbing" authorityYear="1910" box="[1133,1458,1220,1249]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Paracilicaea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FBF6FB69FB14D986" box="[1133,1273,1220,1249]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Paracilicaea</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="C7464B6FFF977247FB65FB69FA5FD986" author="Stebbing, T. R. R." box="[1278,1458,1220,1249]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" pagination="215 - 230" refId="ref5362" refString="Stebbing, T. R. R. 1910. Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea. XIV. On the Crustacea Isopoda and Tanaidacea. Journal of the Linnean Society of Zoology, 31: 215 - 230." type="journal article" year="1910">Stebbing, 1910</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
) or the exopod minute or even absent (
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FABBFB46FBB5D857" authority="H. Milne Edwards, 1840" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1840" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Cassidina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FABBFB46FA7ED86F" box="[1312,1427,1259,1288]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Cassidina</emphasis>
H.
<bibRefCitation id="C7464B6FFF977247FCD0FABEFBB5D857" author="Milne Edwards, H." box="[843,1112,1299,1328]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" refId="ref5240" refString="Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces, Comprenant I'Anatomie, la Physiologie et la Classification de ces Animaux, Vol. 3, Paris, Librarie Encyclopedique de Roret, 605 p." type="book" year="1840">Milne Edwards, 1840</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="64D74D1DFF977247FBF8FABEFA40D857" authority="Bruce, 1994" authorityName="Bruce" authorityYear="1994" box="[1123,1453,1299,1328]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sphaeromatidae" genus="Apemosphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Isopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="91A3EA8CFF977247FBF8FABEFAE2D857" box="[1123,1295,1299,1328]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Apemosphaera</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="C7464B6FFF977247FA8CFABEFA40D857" author="Bruce, N. L." box="[1303,1453,1299,1328]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" pagination="1077 - 1173" refId="ref4682" refString="Bruce, N. L. 1994. The Cassidininae Hansen, 1905 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) of Australia. Journal of Natural History, 28: 1077 - 1173." type="journal article" year="1994">Bruce, 1994</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
), for example.
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</subSubSection>
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