Shoemakerella Pirlot 1936

Shoemakerella Pirlot, 1936

Remarks. Shoemakerella Pirlot, 1936: 264, was previously known only from the western North Atlantic Ocean, with a possible occurrence in the eastern North Pacific Ocean represented by Hurley’s (1963) record of Shoemakerella cubensis (as Lysianopsis) from the Gulf of California. The present record is the first from the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Shoemakerella is very similar to Arugella Pirlot, 1936: 259, a genus known from eastern Indonesia. Both genera have only slight sexual dimorphism, a molar reduced to a setose flap, no apical robust setae on the maxilla 1 palp, simple first gnathopods, a constricted inner ramus on uropod 2 and short third uropods with a flanged peduncle. However in Shoemakerella the mandibular molar has a medial row of small robust setae (absent in Arugella); the first article of the mandibular palp is long (short in Arugella); and STB - STD of the maxilla 1 outer plate inner row setal-teeth are stout (slender in Arugella).