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Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks 1994

Description

Key to genera of Neopleustinae

1. Pereopods 1 and 2 (gnathopods 1 and 2) strongly unlike in size and form (figs. 4j, k, 5i, j)........................................................................................... Shoemakeroides Hendrycks & Bousfield, 2004

- Pereopods 1 and 2 (gnathopods 1 and 2) like in size and form (figs. 4a–i, l, 5a–h, k)................................ 2

2. Pereopods 1 and 2 (gnathopods 1 and 2) powerful; carpus short, with distinct narrow carpal lobe; propodus long, inflated, palmar margin long, vertical (figs. 4l, 5k)............................................. Hendrycksopleustes gen. nov.

- Pereopods 1 and 2 (gnathopods 1 and 2) weak, subchelate; carpus elongate, posterodistal lobe shallow; propodus with short, oblique palmar margin (figs. 4a–i, 5a–h)............................................. Neopleustes Stebbing, 1906

Notes

Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2021, Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Crustacea Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Subfamily Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994, pp. 267-306 in Zootaxa 4974 (2) on pages 273-274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4775545

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pleustidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bousfield & Hendrycks
Taxon rank
subFamily
Taxonomic concept label
Neopleustinae Bousfield, 1994 sec. Labay, 2021

References

  • Hendrycks, E. A. & Bousfield, E. L. (2004) The amphipod family Pleustidae (mainly subfamilies Mesopleustinae, Neopleustinae, Pleusymtinae and Stenopleustinae) from the Pacific coast of North America: systematics and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, 3 (4), 45 - 113.
  • Stebbing, T. R. R. (1906) Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. Das Tiereich, 21, 1 - 806.