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Pseudharpinia Schellenberg 1931

  • 1. Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal, Decanato de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação, UFRRJ,

Description

Identification key to world species of Pseudharpinia

1 Epimeral plate 3 posteroventral corner not produced as a hook........................... P. brevirostris Chevreux, 1920

- Epimeral plate 3 posteroventral corner produced as a hook..................................................... 2

2 Epimeral plate 3 posteroventral hook medium............................................................... 3

- Epimeral plate 3 posteroventral hook large and curved.........................................................8

3 Pereopod 7 basis posteroventral margin produced as an acute hook curved upwards..................................4

- Pereopod 7 basis posteroventral margin ordinarily produced....................................................5

4 Pereopod 7 basis posteroventral margin weakly crenulate, hook medium.......................... P. vallini (Dahl, 1954)

- Pereopod 7 basis posteroventral margin smooth, hook large............... P. macrospinosa Valério-Berardo & Piera, 2006

5 Pereopod 7 basis exceeding the apex of ischium............................................................. 6

- Pereopod 7 basis reaching only the apex of ischium............................................................7

6 Epimeral plate 3 ventral margin straight................................................. P. abyssalis (Pirlot, 1932)

- Epimeral plate 3 ventral margin convex........................................... P. ayutlanta (J.L. Barnard, 1964)

7 Pereopod 7 basis anterodistal corner lobe produced, densely setose......................... P. cinca (J.L. Barnard, 1961)

- Pereopod 7 basis anterodistal lobe not produced, not setose.............................. P. excavata (Chevreux, 1887)

8 Pereopod 7 basis presenting large projections as strong spines.................................................. 9

- Pereopod 7 basis ordinarily serrate or crenulate..............................................................11

9 Pereopod 7 basis with strong spines confined ventrally.................................... P. latipes (Norman, 1900)

- Pereopod 7 basis with strong spines splayed posteroventrally.................................................. 10

10 Head entire laterally........................................................... Pseudharpinia bonhami sp. nov.

- Head excavate laterally.......................................................... P. birjulini (Gurjanova, 1953)

11 Pereopod 7 ischium anterodistal angle produced distally............................. P. cariniceps (K.H. Barnard, 1932)

- Pereopod 7 ischium anterodistal angle not produced distally....................................................12

12 Pereopod 7 merus posterior margin produced distally..........................................................13

- Pereopod 7 merus posterior margin not produced.............................................................17

13 Pereopod 6 basis posterior margin not smooth proximally, presenting blunt lobes or spine............................14

- Pereopod 6 basis posterior margin smooth, without lobes or projections.......................................... 15

14 Pereopod 6 basis posterior margin with a long acute spine proximally.................... Pseudharpinia jonesyi sp. nov.

- Pereopod 6 basis posterior margin with 3 blunt lobes proximally................. P. tupinamba Senna & Souza-Filho, 2011

15 Antenna 1 primary flagellum article 1 stout and elongate............................... Pseudharpinia pagei sp. nov.

- Antenna 1 primary flagellum article 1 ordinary..............................................................16

16 Mandible incisor with 2 teeth.................................................... P. dentata (Schellenberg, 1931)

- Mandible incisor with 3+ teeth.................................................... Pseudharpinia planti sp. nov.

17 Maxilla 2 inner plate larger than outer.................................................................... 18

- Maxilla 2 outer plate larger than inner.................................................................... 19

18 Pereopod 7 basis posterior margin with 1 large projection as a spine...................... P. calcariaria Bushueva, 1982

- Pereopod 7 basis posterior margin weakly serrate/crenulate...................... P. antarctica Ren in Ren & Huang, 1991

19 Uropod 3 rami with ovoid shape........................................................... P. ovata Senna, 2010

- Uropod 3 rami ordinary................................................................................ 20

20 Epimeral plate 3 ventral margin convex................................................................... 21

- Epimeral plate 3 ventral margin with a concavity.............................. P. inexpectata Jarret & Bousfield, 1994

21 Epimeral plate 3 posterior margin sinuous.......................................... P. obtusifrons (Stebbing, 1888)

- Epimeral plate 3 posterior margin not sinuous.............................................. P. berardo Senna, 2010

Notes

Published as part of Andrade, Luiz F. & Senna, André R., 2020, Four new species of Pseudharpinia Schellenberg, 1931 (Crustacea: Amphipoda Phoxocephalidae) from southwestern Atlantic and new records of P. tupinamba Senna & Souza-Filho, 2011, pp. 501-537 in Zootaxa 4763 (4) on page 534, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3762080

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phoxocephalidae
Genus
Pseudharpinia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Schellenberg
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudharpinia Schellenberg, 1931 sec. Andrade & Senna, 2020

References

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  • Dahl, E. (1954) A collection of Amphipoda from the Ross Sea. Arkiv for Zoologi, 7 (19), 281 - 293.
  • Valerio-Berardo, M. T. & Piera, F. E. (2006) Description of a new species of Pseudharpinia (Amphipoda: Phoxocephalidae: Harpiniinae) from Admiralty Bay, King George, Antarctic Peninsula. Nauplius, 14 (2), 75 - 82.
  • Pirlot, J. M. (1932) Les amphipodes de l'expedition du Siboga. Deuxieme partie: Les amphipodes gammarides I. Les amphipodes fouisseurs. Phoxocephalidae, Oedicerotidae. Siboga Expeditie, Monographie, 33 (b), 57 - 113
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  • Barnard, J. L. (1961) Gammaridean Amphipoda from depths of 400 to 6000 meters. Galathea Report, 5, 23 - 128.
  • Chevreux, E. (1887) Crustaces amphipodes nouveaux dragues par l'Hirondelle, pendant sa campagne de 1886. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 12, 566 - 580.
  • Norman, A. M. (1900) British Amphipoda: families Pontoporeidae to Ampeliscidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7 (5), 326 - 346. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 35830
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  • Senna, A. R. & Souza-Filho, J. F. (2011) A new species of Pseudharpinia (Amphipoda: Haustorioidea: Phoxocephalidae) from Southeastern Brazilian continental shelf. Nauplius, 19 (1), 7 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0104 - 64972011000100002
  • Schellenberg, A. (1931) Gammariden und Caprelliden des Magellangebietes, Sudgeorgiens und der Westantarktis. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1903, 2 (6), 1 - 290.
  • Bushueva, I. V. (1982) Novyy vid roda Pseudharpinia (Amphipoda) iz moria Deyvisa (Antarktika). Zoologicheskij Zhurnal, 61 (8), 1262 - 1265. [in Russian]
  • 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.
  • Senna, A. R. (2010) A new genus and five new species of Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the south-east Brazilian deep sea. Journal of Natural History, 4 (33 - 34), 2075 - 2118. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2010.486081
  • Jarret, N. E. & Bousfield, E. L. (1994) The amphipod superfamily Phoxocephaloidea on the pacific coast of North America. Family Phoxocephalidae. Part II. Subfamilies Pontharpiniinae, Parharpiniinae, Brolginae, Phoxocephalinae, and Harpiniinae. Systematics and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, 3 (4), 71 - 150.
  • Stebbing, T. R. R. (1888) Report on the Amphipoda collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the Years 1873 - 1876, Zoology, 29, 1 - 1737.