Pleuroprion

• Main Authors: Stransky, Bente, Svavarsson, Jörundur, Poore, Gary C. B., Kihara, Terue Cristina
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Antarcturidae; Pleuroprion; Seta; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4332821; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332821

Genus Pleuroprion zur Strassen, 1903 Antares zur Strassen, 1902: 687–688 (preoccupied). Pleuroprion.—zur Strassen, 1903: 31 (replacement name).— Richardson, 1905: 342, key to species.— Stebbing 1908: 51–52.— Barnard, 1914: 216.— Hansen, 1916: 193–194, key to species.— Gurjanova, 1933: 160.— Gurjanova, 1936: 197–198, key to species.— Kensley, 1978: 33.— Kussakin, 1982: 420–421, key to species.— Wägele, 1989: 138–139.— Poore, 2001: 224.— Poore, 2015: 14. Diagnosis: Body flattened, with subparallel pereonites, pereonite 1 separated from head by shallow transverse groove, lateral margins of head and pereonite 1 shallow, convex. Pleonite 1 articulating with pleotelson, its posterior dorsal margin clearly indicated. Pleonite 2 of male dorsally doomed. Eyes prominent, bulbous. Antenna 2 flagellum of 2 articles plus claw. Maxillipedal palp article 3 not mesially lobed, about 1.5 times as wide as article 4. Pereopod 1 dactylus with unguis. Pereopods 2–4 with carpus longer than ischium and merus together; carpus and propodus tapering; fringed with long, pappose setae and some single simple setae on inferior margin; dactylus slender, unguis less than half length of body of dactylus, total 0.6 times propodus. Uropod biramous; exopod with terminal robust seta; endopod shorter than wide, with terminal stout seta. Penial plate tapering, apically bifid. Pleopod 1 of male exopod with 13 lateral plumose setae, with 9 distomesial plumose setae, with strong groove on its posterior face opening on short distolateral lobe; endopod shorter than exopod. Pleopod 2 with styliform appendix masculina, slightly longer than endopod. Oostegites unknown. Type species: Antares chuni zur Strassen, 1902. Included species: Pleuroprion chuni (zur Strassen, 1902). Remarks: Zur Strassen (1902) described a new species collected off South Africa and placed it in a new genus Antares. However, Antares was preoccupided and zur Strassen (1903) replaced it with Pleuroprion zur Strassen, 1903. Zur Strassen (1902, 1903) did not provide a generic diagnosis but ...