Pontoporeiidae

• Main Author: Myers, A
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Pontoporeiidae; Myers; Seta; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6150737; https://zenodo.org/record/6150737

Bathyporeiidae d'Udekem d'Acoz, 2011 Type genus. Bathyporeia Lindstrom, 1855. Diagnostic description. Body laterally compressed. Eyes present, well developed, reniform. Antennae 1–2 calceoli gammarid (type 1). Antenna 1 shorter than antenna 2 peduncular article 1 longer than article 2; longer than article 3; shorter than article 1; peduncular articles 1–2 geniculate peduncular articles 2–3 not geniculate; accessory flagellum minute. Antenna 2 peduncular article 1 not enlarged. Mandible molar non-triturative or with tiny triturating patch; palp symmetrical. Maxilla 1 basal endite setose along medial margin; palps symmetrical. Maxilla 2 basal endite without oblique setal row. Labium inner lobes present. Coxal gills on pereopods 2–6, not stalked; sternal gills absent; sternal blisters absent; oostegites fringing setae simple. Gnathopod 1 subchelate; similar in males and females (not sexually dimorphic); smaller (or weaker) than gnathopod 2 or similar in size to gnathopod 2; propodus palm without robust setae along palmar margin. Gnathopod 2 subchelate; similar in males and females (not sexually dimorphic); carpus not produced along posterior margin of propodus, projecting between merus and propodus. Pereopods 3–4 not sexually dimorphic. Pereopod 4 with well developed posteroventral lobe. Pereopod 5 shorter than pereopod 6; coxa equilobate. Pereopod 7 longer than pereopod 5. Pleonites 1–3 without dorsal carinae. Urosomites 1–3 free; with slender or robust dorsal setae. Urosomite 1 without large distoventral robust seta. Urosomite 2 without dorsal setae. Uropod 1 without basofacial robust setae. Uropod 3 not sexually dimorphic; biramous, with few plumose setae; endopod minute. Telson deeply cleft; dorsal or lateral robust setae present; apical robust setae present. Habitat. Marine, epigean. Included genera. Amphiporeia Shoemaker, 1929; Bathyporeia Lindstrom, 1855. Distribution. North Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Seas. : Published as part of Myers, A, 2013, A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 3610 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3610.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/283309