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Published July 31, 2015 | Version v1
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Dodecas Stebbing 1883

Creators

  • 1. Department of Life Environment Conservation, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan; & Center of Advanced Technology for the Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan;
  • 2. Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Description

Genus Dodecas Stebbing, 1883 Diagnosis

Head fused with pereonite 1. Antenna 1 well developed; flagellum with more than two articles; accessory flagellum absent. Antenna 2 well developed; flagellum with more than three articles. Mandible well developed; molar absent; palp 3-articulate; palp setal formula 1 – x – 1. Maxilliped well developed; inner plate (basal endite) larger than outer plate (ischial endite); outer plate (ischial endite) well developed; palp article 3 without distal projection; palp article 4 well developed. Pereonite 4 clavate appendage absent. Pereonites 6 and 7 not fused. Pereopod 3 well developed, with seven articles. Pereopod 4 absent. Pereopod 5 reduced with four articles. Pereopods 6 and 7 well developed, with seven articles. Gills on pereonites 2 to 4. Pleopods present, one pair, tiny. Uropods two pairs; uropod 1, uniramous; uropod 2, uniramous. Telson (dorsal lobe) present.

Type species

Dodecas elongata Stebbing, 1883, monotypy.

Included species

Dodecas includes seven species: Dodecas decacentrum Stebbing, 1910b; Dodecas elongata Stebbing, 1883;? Dodecas eltaninae McCain and Gray, 1971; Dodecas grandimanus Guiler, 1954; Dodecas hexacentrum Mayer, 1903; Dodecas reducta K.H. Barnard, 1932; Dodecas tasmaniensis Guiler, 1954.

Remarks

The genus Dodecas was established specifically for D. elongata Stebbing, 1883 by Stebbing (1883). The generic diagnosis of the present genus is provided based on the present description of D. decacentrum Stebbing, 1910b and D. hexacentrum Mayer, 1903.

Notes

Published as part of Takeuchi, Ichiro & Lowry, James K., 2015, A taxonomic study on the Phtisicidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of New South Wales, Australia, pp. 603-648 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 605, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1079338, http://zenodo.org/record/3985737

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA87CCFFCF9C6AEFC27008FB26B093

Is part of
Journal article: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1079338 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3985737 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF83FFB4FFCD9C68EE147100FFA2B460 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/975EE532-0FAD-4D4F-8E18-9DF3B790953F (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BA87CCFFCF9C6AEFC27008FB26B093 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/166240645 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21307/taxon/03BA87CCFFCF9C6AEFC27008FB26B093.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Caprellidae
Genus
Dodecas
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stebbing
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Dodecas Stebbing, 1883 sec. Takeuchi & Lowry, 2015

References

  • Stebbing TRR. 1883. The ' Challenger ' Amphipoda. Ann Mag Nat Hist, Ser 5. 11: 203 - 207.
  • Stebbing TRR. 1910 b. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H. M. C. S. " Thetis " off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Crustacea. Part V. Amphipoda. Aust Mus Mem. 4: 567 - 658.
  • McCain JC, Gray WS. 1971. Antarctic and subantarctic Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Antarct Res Ser. 17: 111 - 139.
  • Guiler ER. 1954. Some collections of caprellids from Tasmania. Ann Mag Nat Hist Zool, Botany, and Geology. 7: 531 - 553. 12 th Series.
  • Mayer P. 1903. Die Caprellidae der Siboga-Expedition. Siboga-Expeditie, Monographie. 34: 1 - 160 + pls 1 - 10.