Heterophoxus Shoemaker 1925
Creators
- 1. Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal, Decanato de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, UFRRJ, Rod. BR 465, Km 7, Seropédica, RJ, CEP 23890 - 000, Brazil.
- 2. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Formação de Professores, Departamento de Ciências, Rua Dr. Francisco Portela, 1470, Patronato, São Gonçalo, RJ, CEP 24435 - 005, Brazil.
Description
Genus Heterophoxus Shoemaker, 1925 Type species
Heterophoxus pennatus Shoemaker, 1925
Diagnosis (modified from Barnard & Karaman 1991)
Rostrum unconstricted. Eyes present. Antenna 1, article 2 short, ventral setae widely spread, but almost confined apically. Antenna 2, article 1 strongly ensiform, facial stout setae on article 4 in one main row, article 5 very short. Mandible, right incisor with 4+ teeth, right lacinia mobilis bifid, flabellate, molar not triturative, with three basally fused stout setae; palpar hump medium, apex of palp article 3 oblique. Maxilla 1, inner plate, with two setae, palp 2-articulate. Maxilliped, inner plate, partly fused, poorly armed, apex of palp article 3 not strongly protuberant, article 4 not elongate, but apical nail distinct. Gnathopods small, similar, carpus of gnathopods 1–2 very short, without eusirid attachment, almost cryptic, propodus of gnathopods 1–2 ovatorectangular, elongate, poorly setose anteriorly, palms acute. Perepods 3–4, carpus with posteroproximal setae, propodus with thin armaments. Pereopod 5, basis, merus and carpus narrow. Pereopod 6, merus and carpus narrow. Pereopod 7 of ordinary size, ischium enlarged, dactylus ordinary. Epimeral plates 1–2 without long midfacial brushes or posterior setae. Epimeral plate 3 ordinary, bearing three or more long setae. Urosomite 3 without dorsal hook. Uropod 1, peduncle without inter-ramal spike, without displaced stout setae. Uropod 2, inner ramus ordinary. Uropod 3 ordinary, one of rami longer than peduncle, bearing article 2 on outer ramus, with two apical setae. Telson ordinary or with supernumerary lateral stout setae.
CompositionThe genus is composed of 10 known species + 1 new species: Heterophoxus cephalodens Griffiths, 1975; H. despard Alonso, 2012; H. ellisi Jarret & Bousfield, 1994; H. oculatus (Holmes, 1908); H. ophthalmicus (Schellenberg, 1925); H. opus Griffiths, 1975; H. pellusidus Ren in Ren & Huang, 1991; H. pennatus Shoemaker, 1925; H. shoemakeri sp. nov.; H. trichosus K.H. Barnard, 1932 and H. videns K.H. Barnard, 1930.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Phoxocephalidae
- Genus
- Heterophoxus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Shoemaker
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heterophoxus Shoemaker, 1925 sec. Andrade & Senna, 2020
References
- Barnard J. L. & Karaman G. S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 13: 419 - 866. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.13.1991.367
- Griffiths C. L. 1975. The Amphipoda of Southern Africa Part 5. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of the Cape Province west of Cape Agulhas. Annals of the South African Museum 67 (5): 91 - 181.
- Alonso G. M. 2012. Amphipod crustaceans (Corophiidea and Gammaridea) associated with holdfasts of Macrocystis pyrifera from the Beagle Channel (Argentina) and additional records from the Southwestern Atlantic. Journal of Natural History 46 (29 - 30): 1799 - 1894. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2012.692825
- Jarret N. E. & Bousfield E. L. 1994. The amphipod superfamily Phoxocephaloidea on the pacific coast of North America. Family Phoxocephalidae. Part II. Subfamilies Pontharpiniinae, Paharpiniinae, Brolginae, Phoxocephalinae, and Harpiniinae. Systematics and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica 3 (4): 71 - 150.
- Ren X. & Huang L. 1991. Studies on Gammaridea and Caprellidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the northwest waters off the Antarctic Peninsula. Studia Marina Sinica 32: 185 - 323.
- Barnard K. H. 1930. Crustacea. Part XI. Amphipoda. British Antarctic (" Terra Nova ") Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology 8 (4): 307 - 454. Available from https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 49462829 [accessed 20 Dec. 2019].