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Melitoides

Description

Key to species of genus Melitoides

1. Epimeral plate 3 with produced hind corner................................... Melitoides valida (Schoemaker, 1955)

- Epimeral plates 1–3 without produced hind corner, rounded................................................... 2

2. Pigmented eyes absent, terminal segment of outer ramus of uropod 3 reduced........ Melitoides makarovi Gurjanova, 1934

- Pigmented eyes present, outer ramus of uropod 3 with small terminal segment................ Melitoides kawaii sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2014, Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934, pp. 237-280 in Zootaxa 3869 (3) on page 278, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/251715

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Biodiversity

Family
Melitidae
Genus
Melitoides
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus