Quasimelita ...

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Quasimelita; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5677652; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5677652

Key to species of genus Quasimelita 1. Eyes absent, antenna 1 as long as body length............................ Quasimelita abyssorum (Stephensen, 1944) - Eyes present, antenna 1 shorter than body length............................................................ 2 2. Pleon segments with dorsal carination.................................................................... 3 - Pleon segments without dorsal carination.................................................................. 5 3. Pleon segments 1–3 with one large central tooth and two small lateral teeth each............. Quasimelita tolyza sp. nov. - Only pleon segments 2–3 with one central tooh each......................................................... 4 4. Anterior head lobe large, rounded, coxa 1 not serrated, with rounded anterior corner, basis of pereopod 7 linear.................................................................................. Quasimelita formosa (Murdoch, 1885) - Anterior head lobe truncated (Fig. 16 c), coxa 1 serrated, ... : Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2014, Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934, pp. 237-280 in Zootaxa 3869 (3) on page 269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/251715 ...