Galatheoidea Samouelle 1819 ...
KEY TO FAMILIES OF GALATHEOIDEA The key provided by authors (see above) can be modified to accommodate Kiwaidae n. fam. as follows: 1. Weakly calcified lineage/sutures dividing carapace into discrete regions...... Aeglidae — Carapace without lineage/sutures..............................................
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4891317 https://zenodo.org/record/4891317 |
| Summary: | KEY TO FAMILIES OF GALATHEOIDEA The key provided by authors (see above) can be modified to accommodate Kiwaidae n. fam. as follows: 1. Weakly calcified lineage/sutures dividing carapace into discrete regions...... Aeglidae — Carapace without lineage/sutures.......................................................................... 2 2. Abdomen folded up against thorax; body crab-like; chelipeds moderately elongate, stout or flattened................................................................................ Porcellanidae — Abdomen folded up against itself (not against thorax); body shrimp-like; chelipeds greatly elongate, usually slender............................................................................ 3 3. Sternal plate on last thoracic somite, between last legs, well developed; telson without a transverse suture and not folded beneath the preceding abdominal somites with the tailfan; third maxilliped with epipod...................................... Galatheidae — Sternal plate on last ... : Published as part of Macpherson, Enrique, Jones, William & Segonzac, Michel, 2005, A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, pp. 709-723 in Zoosystema 27 (4) on pages 721-722, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689563 ... |
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