Schizurakrops Wittmann, 2024, gen. nov.

Schizurakrops gen. nov.

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Schizurakrops meesi gen. et sp. nov. by monotypy and present designation.

Based on adult female. Carapace anteriorly produced into large, spearhead-like rostrum. Eye rudiments set apart, not connected by membranous integument; dorsoventrally strongly flattened, with one acute distal projection from disto-lateral edge, no visual elements, no ocular papilla. Three segments of the antennular trunk separated by transverse articulations. Antennal peduncle with three segments lined in a single plane. Antennal scale not subdivided, without terminal lobe; mesial margin setose; bare portion of lateral margin ending in a single, strong tooth. Clypeus with unpaired median, blade-like anterior process. Labrum normal, anteriorly rounded; no longitudinal ridge. Thoracomeres and pleomeres normal. Thoracic endopod 2 not prehensile. Three pairs of oostegites contributing to wall of marsupium. Female pleopods reduced to setose rods with residual differentiation of pseudobranchial lobe. Uropods undivided, setose. Telson elongate, roughly trapeziform, with deep apical incision lined with laminae, no seta. Disto-lateral lobes with spines on narrowly transverse terminal margin.

The genus name is a noun with Greek masculine ending, condensed from the Ancient Greek verb ‘σχίζω’ (‘divide’), noun ‘οὐρά’ (‘tail’), adjective ‘άκρος’ (‘acute’) and noun ‘ὤψ’ (‘eye’), referring to the cleft telson in combination with rostrally acute eye rudiments.