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Protorchestiidae

Creators

  • 1. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland.
  • 2. Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.

Description

Protorchestiidae fam. nov.

Type genus. Protorchestia Bousfield, 1982.

Included genera (5). Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart, 2010; Eorchestia Bousfield, 1984; Microrchestia Bousfield, 1984; Neorchestia Friend, 1987; Protorchestia Bousfield, 1982.

Category. Mascupods.

Ecological type. Marsh-hoppers and forest-hoppers.

Distribution. Australia and Papua New Guinea, South Africa, East Africa and Red Sea, Western Indian Ocean including Madagascar; Mauritius, Pacific South and Central America and Western North Atlantic.

Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 long, reaching to at least midpoint of peduncular article 5 of antenna 2 or short, not reaching midpoint of peduncular article 5 of antenna 2. Maxilliped palp article 2 without distomedial lobe; article 4 small, distinct. Gnathopod 1 posterior margin of merus, carpus and propodus each with palmate lobes; propodus ‘subtriangular’ with well-developed posterodistal lobe. Gnathopod 2 subchelate. Pereopods 3–7 simplidactylate. Pereopod 4 dactylus basidactylate. Pereopod 5 dactylus not inflated. Pereopod 6 subequal in length or shorter than pereopod 7. Epimera 1–3 slits absent. Uropods 1–2 rami without apical spear-shaped setae. Uropod 1 male exopod not sexually dimorphic; exopod with marginal robust setae in one row or without marginal robust setae. Uropod 3 ramus subequal in length, longer than or shorter than peduncle. Telson with apical robust setae only or with apical and marginal robust setae, with 1–6 robust setae per lobe.

Notes

Published as part of Myers, A. A. & Lowry, J. K., 2020, A phylogeny and classification of the Talitroidea (Amphipoda, Senticaudata) based on interpretation of morphological synapomorphies and homoplasies, pp. 281-310 in Zootaxa 4778 (2) on pages 297-298, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3826328

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/995A87BA7376FFACE797F8CC383DFDAC

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3826328 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/6563FFC27366FFBDE700FFF93C08FFCE (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C547A832-4C3D-4314-9611-5AA6C32FE986 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/995A87BA7376FFACE797F8CC383DFDAC (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164133531 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22157/taxon/995A87BA7376FFACE797F8CC383DFDAC.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Protorchestiidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Bousfield, E. L. (1982) The amphipod superfamily Talitroidea in the northeastern Pacific region. Family Talitridae. Systematics and distributional ecology. National. Museum of Natural Science, Publications in Biological Oceanography, 11, i-vii + 1 - 73.
  • Lowry, J. K. & Peart, R. (2010) The genus Microrchestia (Amphipoda, Talitridae) in eastern Australia. Zootaxa, 2349 (1), 21 - 38. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2349.1.2
  • Bousfield, E. L. (1984) Recent advances in the systematics and biogeography of landhoppers (Amphipoda: Talitridae) of the Indo-Pacific Region. Bishop Museum Special Publication, 72, 171 - 210.
  • Friend, J. A. (1987) The terrestrial amphipods (Amphipoda: Talitridae) of Tasmania: systematics and zoogeography. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 7, 1 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.7.1987.97