Parvochelus Brix & Kihara 2015
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Genus Parvochelus Brix & Kihara, 2015
Parvochelus Brix & Kihara in Brix et al., 2015: 51.
Type species. Parvochelus russus Brix & Kihara, 2015, by original designation.
Diagnosis (modified after Brix & Kihara 2015). Body length 3.3–4.0 pereonite 2 width, covered with cuticular folds. Pereopod I with carpo-propodo-chela, carpus length 2.3–3.7 width, longer than propodus, with subparallel sides, not or only slightly produced at basis of claw-seta, laterally of claw-seta with one long slender seta, seta length at least 0.5 claw-seta length. Pereopods II–VII slender (pereopods II–IV carpus length about 7.0–8.0 width), setal rows with up to 5 setae. Pleotelson without posterolateral spines, lateral margins serrated, posterior margin framed by cuticular membrane. Female pleopod II and male pleopod I covering ventral side of pleotelson including anus, male pleopod I with convex lateral sides, distolateral lobes not developed. Uropod uniramous.
Composition. Parvochelus russus Brix & Kihara, 2015; P. serricaudis sp. nov.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Desmosomatidae
- Genus
- Parvochelus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Isopoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Brix & Kihara
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parvochelus Brix, 2015 sec. Golovan, 2015
References
- Brix, S., Leese, F., Riehl, T. & Kihara, T. C. (2015) A new genus and new species of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Isopoda) from the eastern South Atlantic abyss described by means of integrative taxonomy. Marine Biodiversity, 45, 7 - 61. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 014 - 0218 - 3