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Ampeliscidae Costa 1857
Description
Family Ampeliscidae Costa, 1857
Diagnosis. Head very large. Eyes when present composed of internal pigment masses served by 2–4 external cuticular lenses. Accessory flagellum absent. Gnathopods feeble. Article 4 of pereopods 3–4 elongate, article 6 much shorter than 4 and article 5 much shorter than 6, these pereopods glandular. Pereopods 5–6 alike but pereopod 7 of distinct structure, article 2 with distinct, usually broad posteroventral lobe, article 2 of pereopods 5– 6 rhomboid or diamond shaped and poorly lobed. Urosomites 2–3 coalesced. Uropod 3 biramous. Telson laminar (Barnard & Karaman, 1991).
Notes
Published as part of Kaim-Malka, R. A., Bellan-Santini, D. & Dauvin, C., 2016, On some Haploops species collected in the North Atlantic Ocean with the description of Haploops islandica n. sp. (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Ampeliscidae) [Contribution to the knowledge of the Haploops genus. 8.] in Zootaxa 4179 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/260566
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.2 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/260566 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E73FA51CFFD4447EFFEAFB7EAB33FF97 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/855F1CC0-8086-4100-B74A-248B4B0CEBA8 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/1B06DD64FFD5447FFF7DFD26AAE8F8FC (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ampeliscidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Costa
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ampeliscidae Costa, 1857 sec. Kaim-Malka, Bellan-Santini & Dauvin, 2016
References
- Costa, A. (1857) Ricerche sui crostacei amfipodi del regno di Napoli. Memorie della Reale Accademia de Scienze di Napoli, 1, 165 - 235, 4 pls.
- Barnard, J. L. & Karaman, G. S. (1991) The families and genera of marine Gammaridea Amphipod (except marine Gammaroid). Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 13, part 1, 84 - 90.