Published February 28, 2002 | Version v1
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Palaumysis Bacescu and Iliffe 1986

  • 1. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, University of L'Aquila, Via Vetoio, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
  • 2. Department of Marine Biology, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77553 - 1675, USA

Description

Palaumysis Bacescu and Iliffe, 1986

Revised diagnosis. Length 1.6-2.5 mm. Antennal scale rudimentary. Apomorphic inner antennal fl agellum (two, four segments). Strong peraeopods with carpopropodus not divided. Two pairs of oostegites, rudimentary. Telson subtriangular, armed with two distal, articulated or not articulated spines.

Type species: P. simonae Bacescu and Iliffe, 1986 from cave waters of Palau (Micronesia).

Notes

Published as part of Pesce, Giuseppe L. & Iliffe, Thomas M., 2002, New records of cave-dwelling mysids from the Bahamas and Mexico with description of Palaumysis bahamensis n. sp. (Crustacea: Mysidacea), pp. 265-278 in Journal of Natural History 36 (3) on page 275, DOI: 10.1080/00222930010005033, http://zenodo.org/record/4757320

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bacescu and Iliffe
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mysida
Family
Mysidae
Genus
Palaumysis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Palaumysis and, 1986 sec. Pesce & Iliffe, 2002

References

  • BACESCU, M. and ILIFFE, T. M., 1986, Contribution to the knowledge of Mysidacea from western Paci fi c: Aberomysis muranoi n. gen., n. sp. and Palaumysis simonae n. gen. n. sp. from marine caves on Palau, Micronesia, Travaux du MuseAum d'Histoire naturelle Grigore Antipa, 28, 25-35.