Protoaeginella Laubitz & Mills 1972

• Main Author: Guerra-García, José M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Caprellidae; Protoaeginella; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5469410; https://zenodo.org/record/5469410

KEY TO THE WORLD SPECIES OF PROTOAEGINELLA LAUBITZ & MILLS, 1972 1. Abdomen with two pairs of abdominal appendages. Basis of the male gnathopod 2 with abundant tubercles................................................................ P. verrucosa n. sp. — Abdomen with a pair of abdominal appendages. Basis of the male gnathopod 2 without tubercles.................................................................................................... 2 2. Abdomen five-segmented, with minute appendages. Body densely tuberculate........................................................................................................................ P. muricata — Abdomen less than five-segmented, with appendages well developed, those of the male with several large apical teeth. Body smooth or with sparse tubercles.............. 3 3. Abdomen three- to four-segmented. Abdominal appendages of the male with nine to 10 apical teeth. Body smooth................................................................ P. spinipoda — Abdomen two-segmented. Abdominal appendages of the male with three to five apical teeth. Body with tubercles............................................ P. paraspinipoda n. sp. : Published as part of Guerra-García, José M., 2004, Deep-sea Caprellidea (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Azores with the description of three new species, pp. 235-262 in Zoosystema 26 (2) on page 256, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5393370 : {"references": ["LAUBITZ D. & MILLS E. L. 1972. - Deep-sea Amphipoda from the western North Atlantic Ocean. Caprellidea. Canadian Journal of Zoology 50: 371 - 383."]}