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Odius Lilljeborg 1865

Description

Genus Odius Lilljeborg, 1865

Type species of the genus Odius carinatus (Bate, 1862), original description: Otus carinatus Bate, 1862.

Diagnosis and relationship (emended from J. Berge, W. Vader and C. O. Coleman, 1998 with remarks). – Body with dorsal keel; eyes reniform; labrum narrow, incised; base of mandible narrow conical, palp at same level as molar, projection of hingeline present (fig. 6e), incisor toothed and pointed; maxilla 1 palp 1- articulate, small, carrying one setae, as in fig. 6g, 6h; inner plate with 2 plumose setae on the apex; maxilliped palp 4-articulate; pereopod 1 chelate; palm of propodus forming a motionless finger of chela, with short spine at the posterodistal corner; propodus of pereopod 2 enlarged (its distal margin is approximately 1.5 time wider than proximal one); carpus shorter than propodus; matasome 1 and 2 dorsally produced; metasome dorsal projection acute and upright; telson cleft.

The genus includes 3 species: Odius carinatus (Bate, 1862) from the Arctic Ocean, boreal Pacific Ocean and boreal Atlantic Ocean, Odius cassigerus Gurjanova, 1972 from the southern Okhotsk Sea (Gurjanova, 1951, 1972) and Odius polarsterni (Brandt et Vassilenko, 1995), original description Imbrexodius polarsterni Brandt et Vassilenko, 1995 from Arctic Region (northeastern Greenland).

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Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2010, A new species and subspecies of Ochlesidae Stebbing, 1910 (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Okhotsk Sea, pp. 35-44 in Zootaxa 2354 on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.193532

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Odiidae
Genus
Odius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lilljeborg
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Odius Lilljeborg, 1865 sec. Labay, 2010

References

  • Berge J., Vader, W. & Coleman, C. O. (1998) A cladistic analysis of the amphipod families Ochlesidae and Odiidae, with description of new species and genus. Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceeding of the Fourth International Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 20 - 24, 1998, Vol. 1. 239 - 265.
  • Gurjanova, E. F. (1972) New species of Amphipoda (Amphipoda, Gammaridea) from a northwest part of Pacific ocean and high Arctic regions. Trudy Zoologicheskogo instituta AN SSSR, 52, 129 - 200. [in Russian].
  • Gurjanova, E. F. (1951) Amphipoda of USSR seas and adjacent waters (Amphipoda - Gammaridea). Moscow - Leningrad, Akademia Nauk SSSR, 1029 pp. [in Russian].
  • Brandt, A. & Vassilenko, S. (1995) Amphipoda from northeast Greenland: a new genus and two new species (Crustacea: Peracarida). Journal of Natural History, 29, 1447 - 1459