Prometopa Schellenberg 1926 ...

• Main Author: Krapp-Schickel, Traudl
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Stenothoidae; Prometopa; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5542348; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5542348

Genus Prometopa Schellenberg, 1926 Type species: P. tuberculata Schellenberg, 1926 There are currently three included species: P. dorsoundata Bushueva, 1988; P. edentata Rauschert, 1990; P tuberculata Schellenberg, 1926. Diagnostic characters A1 with (P. edentata, P. tuberculata) or without (P. dorsoundata, P. cedrici) nasiform process on art. 1. Acc. flag. vestigial. Md palp with 3 arts. Mx1 palp with often not clearly visible articulation between first and second art. Mx2 IP ordinary. Mxp IP well separated. Gn1, 2 different from each other in size and shape, Gn1 small, propodus and carpus long and narrow; Gn2 enlarged, palm oblique, carpus short, lobed. P5 with basis rectolinear, P6, 7 basis rounded. Peraeonites dorsally elevated, peraeonite 4 slightly elongated. Pleonites 2, 3 with dorsal process, pleonites 4-6 free. Telson ordinary, flat. ... : Published as part of Krapp-Schickel, Traudl, 2011, New Antarctic stenothoids sensu lato (Amphipoda, Crustacea), pp. 1-17 in European Journal of Taxonomy 2 on page 3, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2011.2, http://zenodo.org/record/841661 ...