Protorchestiidae

• Main Authors: Myers, A. A., Lowry, J. K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Protorchestiidae; Pacific; Indian; Myers; Lowry; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3846973; https://zenodo.org/record/3846973

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. : 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 : {"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"]}