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Pereionotus Bate & Westwood 1863

Description

Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1863

Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1863: 226.— Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 142.— Rabindranath, 1972: 33.— Lincoln, 1979: 142.— Ledoyer, 1986: 869.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 587.

Icridium Grube, 1864a: 209.—1864b: 75 (Icridium fuscum Grube, 1864a, b, monotypy, = Pereionotus testudo (Montagu, 1808))

Palinnotus Stebbing, 1900: 16 (Pereionotus thomsoni Stebbing, 1899, original designation).— J.L. Barnard, 1970: 226.— J.L. Barnard, 1972: 289 (key).

Diagnosis. Pereon depressed, coxal plates 1–4 somewhat splayed. Urosome flexed under pleon. Head flat with short rostrum. Maxilla 1 with scale-like inconspicuous palp. Maxilla 2 with basally fused plates. Maxillipedal palp 3-articulate. Pereopods simple. Basis of pereopods 5–6 wide and rounded and ventrally expanded, that of pereopod 7 without ventral lobe and narrower. Inner ramus of pleopod 3 slightly shortened. Uropod 2 uniramous in female, biramous in male. Uropod 3 without rami.

Type species. Oniscus testudo Montagu, 1808, monotypy.

Included species. Pereionotus includes 10 species: P. alaniphlias (J.L. Barnard, 1970); P. dieteri sp. nov.; P. hartmuti sp. nov.; P. h i r a y a m a i sp. nov.; P. h o l m e s i (Gurjanova, 1938); P. japonicus (Tzvetkova, 1967); P. natalensis (K.H. Barnard, 1940); P. testudo (Montagu, 1808); P. thomsoni Stebbing, 1899; P. yongensis sp. nov..

Notes

Published as part of Coleman, Oliver & Lowry, James K., 2012, The genus Pereionotus (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Phliantidae) from Australia, pp. 63-88 in Zootaxa 3486 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215189

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phliantidae
Genus
Pereionotus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bate & Westwood
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pereionotus Bate, 1863 sec. Coleman & Lowry, 2012

References

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