Apseudomorpha Miller 1940

• Main Authors: Morales-Núñez, Andrés G., Heard, Richard W., Bird, Graham J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Metapseudidae; Apseudomorpha; Pacific; Indian; Seta; Morales; Núñez; Northeast Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5929528; https://zenodo.org/record/5929528

Key to the known species (females) of Apseudomorpha, modified from (Guţu 2009) 1. Pereopod-1 dorsal proximal margin of basis with blunt, spiniform process..... A . negoescuae [Indian Ocean: Réunion Island] - Pereopod-1 dorsal proximal margin of basis lacking a blunt, spiniform process..................................... 2 2. Pleonites 1̅5 without a long seta on dorsolateral margins......... A. avicularia [Southeastern Atlantic Ocean: Cape Town] - At least the last pleonite with a long seta on dorsolateral margins................................................ 3 3. Pleopods absent.............................................. A . vestafricana [Eastern Atlantic Ocean: Mauritania] - Pleopods present (uni- or biramous)....................................................................... 4 4. Only the last pleonite with a long seta on distolateral margins................................................... 5 - More than the last pleonite with a long seta on distolateral margins.............................................. 6 5. First peduncular article of antennule with some dentiform processes on the proximal half of inner margin............................................................................................. A . ortizi [Caribbean Sea: Cuba] - First peduncular article of antennule without dentiform processes on the proximal half of inner margin..................................................................................... A. albida [Northwest Pacific Ocean: Japan] 6. Last four pleonites with a long seta on distolateral margins..................................................... 7 - At most the last three pleonites with a long seta on distolateral margins........................................... 8 7. Pleopods biramous, with biarticulate exopodite................... A . magdalenensis [Northwest Atlantic Ocean: Mexico] - Pleopods biramous, with uniarticulate exopodite (in male), or uniramous (in female).................................................... A . veleronis [Southeast Pacific Ocean and Northeast Atlantic Ocean: Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama] 8. Last three pleonites with a long seta on lateral margins......... A . oahuensis [Southern North Pacific Ocean: O‘ahu Island] - Only two pleonites (second and fifth) with a long seta on distolateral margins...................................... 9 9. Pleopods uniramous........................................................ A . fontainei [Red Sea: Aqaba Gulf] - Pleopods biramous................................................................................... 10 10. Pereopod-1 carpus and propodus ventral margin with three and five spiniform setae, respectively; one branch of pleopods with two long setae............................... A . glebosa [Northeast and Southeast Pacific Ocean: Mexico to Ecuador] - Pereopod-1 carpus and propodus ventral margin with two and four spiniform setae, respectively; each branch of pleopods with one long setae....................................................................................... 11 11. Antennule main flagellum with four short, thick articles. Mandible palp article-2 with three setulate setae on inner margin. Labium palp outer lobe without spiniform setae on sub-proximal margin. Maxilliped palp article-1 outer margin with very small spiniform seta. Pereopod-2, ventral margin of propodus with three spiniform setae.......................................................................................... A . martinicana [Caribbean Sea: Martinique Island] - Antennule main flagellum with three articles. Mandible palp article-2 with five setulate setae on inner margin. Labium palp outer lobe with small spiniform setae on sub-proximal margin. Maxilliped palp article-1 outer margin with spiniform seta. Pereopod-2, ventral margin of propodus with four spiniform setae....................................................................................... A . drummi sp. nov. [South Pacific Ocean: Mo‘orea Island (French Polynesia)] : Published as part of Morales-Núñez, Andrés G., Heard, Richard W. & Bird, Graham J., 2019, Two new apseudomorphan species (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Metapseudidae) from Mo'orea Island (Society Islands, French Polynesia) with taxonomic keys, pp. 213-247 in Zootaxa 4564 (1) on pages 229-230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4564.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/2588858 : {"references": ["Gutu, M. (2009) A contribution to the knowledge of metapseudids. Description of a new genus and three new species from the Caribbean Sea and the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha). Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire naturelle \" Grigore Antipa \", 52, 101 - 125."]}