Petalidium Spence Bate 1881

PETALIDIUM BATE, 1881 Diagnosis: Carapace and abdomen smooth, rostrum as a small protrusion of carapace, acute; supraorbital spine absent; cornea well pigmented; stylocerite fixed; mandible with three-segmented palp; maxillipeds I–II each with well-developed endopod; maxilliped I with threesegmented...

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Main Authors: Vereshchaka, Alexander L., Lunina, Anastasia A.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2015
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Acanthaceae
Petalidium
Marion Island
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10543125
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Summary:PETALIDIUM BATE, 1881 Diagnosis: Carapace and abdomen smooth, rostrum as a small protrusion of carapace, acute; supraorbital spine absent; cornea well pigmented; stylocerite fixed; mandible with three-segmented palp; maxillipeds I–II each with well-developed endopod; maxilliped I with threesegmented endopod; maxilliped III seven-segmented, dactylus not subdivided; pereopods IV–V progressively decreasing in length, flat, six-segmented, lacking dactyli, two distal segments setose only on one margin; uropodal exopod setose for distal 20% of outer margin, with small tooth. Male clasping organ: well-developed, bearing numerous spatulate ordered spines on both inner margins, tubercle absent, replaced by long stout spine. Petasma: LA, Lac and LI developed, entire; LC rudimentary, without hooks; LT divided, PU short, bearing hook; PV elongate, armed with hooks. Photophores: dermal organs and organ of Pesta absent. Branchiae: pleurobranchs on somites VIII–XII, lamellar posterior arthrobranch on somite XII. Type species: By monotypy, P. foliaceum Bate, 1881 (Perez-Farfante & Kensley, 1997: 191). Type locality: off Marion Island, 46°46′S, 45°31′E, depth 2516 m. South of Australia, 47°25′S, 130°22′E, depth 3935 m. Species: Petalidium foliaceum Bate, 1881; P. obesum (Krøyer, 1859); P. suspiriosum Burkenroad, 1937. Published as part of Vereshchaka, Alexander L. & Lunina, Anastasia A., 2015, Phylogeny and taxonomy of the enigmatic genus Petalidium (Decapoda, Sergestidae), with biological remarks, pp. 459-472 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174 (3) on page 466, DOI:10.1111/zoj.12243, http://zenodo.org/record/10106760

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