Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac 2005

• Main Authors: Schnabel, Kareen E., Ahyong, Shane T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Kiwaidae; Antarctic; Pacific; Macpherson; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5308581; https://zenodo.org/record/5308581

Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005 Kiwaidae Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005: 712. Diagnosis. Body elongate, symmetrical. Carapace smooth, without striae. Rostrum well developed, triangular. Cervical grooves clearly distinct; either side of mesogastric region with small, sharply defined pit. Abdominal somites smooth, anterolateral margin of abdominal somite 2 without anterolaterally directed spine with median transverse suture and longitudinal suture in the posterior half of telson. Sternite 3 strongly produced anteriorly to an acute point. Eyes strongly reduced, soft, not calcified, movable, unpigmented. Basal antennular article unarmed. Antennal peduncle consisting of 5 articles; acicle absent. Mandibular cutting edge chitinous, strongly serrated along its length. Maxilliped 1 with well-developed epipod; exopod flagellum not annulated. Cheliped (pereopod 1) with dense corneous spinules along distal portion of occlusal margin. Pereopod 5 inserted below sternite 7, insertion not visible ventrally. Maxilliped 3 to pereopod 4 each with 2 arthrobranchs (vestigial on maxilliped 3). Pereopod 5 without arthrobranch. Pleurobranchs absent. Male pleopods 1–5 present. Type genus. Kiwa Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005, by monotypy. Composition. Kiwa Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005. : Published as part of Schnabel, Kareen E. & Ahyong, Shane T., 2010, A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), pp. 56-64 in Zootaxa 2687 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2687.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5301281 : {"references": ["Macpherson, E., Jones, W. J. & Segonzac, M. (2005) A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. Zoosystema, 27, 709 - 723."]}