Published November 7, 2012 | Version v1
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Pseudolamprops Gamo 1989

  • 1. Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C 1428 EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: rocca @ bg. fcen. uba. ar
  • 2. Universität Hamburg, Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: muehsie @ zoologie. uni-hamburg. de

Description

Genus Pseudolamprops Gamô, 1989

Diagnosis (emended). Carapace with sparse teeth. Antero-lateral angle rounded and denticulate. Ocular lobe with teeth. Telson linguiform, armed with marginal setae (distal and laterally) and 2 subapical dorsal setae exceeding in length the marginal ones. Antennule with long and slender peduncle. Mandible widely truncate at the base. Maxillule palp with 2 setae. First maxilliped with a large dactylus with subapical (not apical) setae. Uropod endopod of 3 articles. Uropod exopod much shorter than the endopod, and composed of 2 subequal articles. Female with rudimentary exopods on pereopods 3 and 4. Male with flagellum of antenna reaching roughly to the end of the abdomen, and with 3 pairs of fully developed pleopods.

Type species. Pseudolamprops spinifer Gamô, 1989a.

Distribution. North and South Atlantic, East China Sea, and Antarctic. Depths: 1934–4928 m.

Notes

Published as part of Roccatagliata, Daniel & Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Ute, 2012, Remarks on the deep-sea genus Pseudolamprops (Cumacea: Lampropidae), pp. 69-79 in Zootaxa 3542 on page 70

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lampropidae
Genus
Pseudolamprops
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cumacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gamo
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudolamprops Gamo, 1989 sec. Roccatagliata & Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 2012

References

  • Gamo, S. (1989 a) Some bathyal cumacean and isopod crustaceans from the Okinawa Trough, the East China Sea, with descriptions of a new genus and five new species. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 44, 85 - 104.