Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac 2005
Creators
- 1. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand.
- 2. Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010 Australia. E-mail: shane. ahyong @ austmus. gov. au
Description
Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005
Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005: 712.
Diagnosis. Body elongate, symmetrical. Carapace smooth, without striae. Rostrum well developed, triangular. Cervical grooves clearly distinct; either side of mesogastric region with small, sharply defined pit. Abdominal somites smooth, anterolateral margin of abdominal somite 2 without anterolaterally directed spine with median transverse suture and longitudinal suture in the posterior half of telson. Sternite 3 strongly produced anteriorly to an acute point. Eyes strongly reduced, soft, not calcified, movable, unpigmented. Basal antennular article unarmed. Antennal peduncle consisting of 5 articles; acicle absent. Mandibular cutting edge chitinous, strongly serrated along its length. Maxilliped 1 with well-developed epipod; exopod flagellum not annulated. Cheliped (pereopod 1) with dense corneous spinules along distal portion of occlusal margin. Pereopod 5 inserted below sternite 7, insertion not visible ventrally. Maxilliped 3 to pereopod 4 each with 2 arthrobranchs (vestigial on maxilliped 3). Pereopod 5 without arthrobranch. Pleurobranchs absent. Male pleopods 1–5 present.
Type genus. Kiwa Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005, by monotypy.
Composition. Kiwa Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.2687.1.4 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5301281 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/04518478C64BFFCB7C1AFFDCFFC0A34D (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/F868FC00C648FFC87C8DFA4AFC40A4BE (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Kiwaidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Kiwaidae Macpherson, 2005 sec. Schnabel & Ahyong, 2010
References
- Macpherson, E., Jones, W. J. & Segonzac, M. (2005) A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. Zoosystema, 27, 709 - 723.