Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks 1994

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Pleustidae; Arctic; Seta
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4775551; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4775551

Subfamily Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994 (Bousfield & Hendrycks 1994: 40) Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks 1994: 40.— Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: 94. Type genus. Neopleustes Stebbing, 1906: 311.— Gurjanova 1951: 641.— Gurjanova 1972: 133, 163.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 649.— Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: 94. Type species. Amphitoe puchella Krøyer, 1845. Genera. Hendrycksopleustes gen. nov., Neopleustes Stebbing, 1906, Shoemakeroides Hendrycks & Bousfield, 2004. Diagnosis (from Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004 with additions). Body usually dorsally carinate or mucronate. Urosome 2 occluded or not dorsally. Rostrum medium, extending beyond head lobe, less often short. Antenna 1, peduncular segment 1 not produced anterodistally. Lower lip usually broad, shallow. Mandibular molar reduced, non-triturative; left lacinia multidentate, right lacinia lacking; raker setae normal, slender; palp large. Maxilla 1, outer plate with 9 apical strong pectinate setae (spine-like setae), inner plate with 1–2 setae. Maxilla 2, inner plate with 1–2 inner margin stout setae. Maxilliped plates short; palp slender (less often medium wide), segment 3 variously produced distally; dactylus slender, pectinate. Coxal plates 1–4 medium, deepening gradually posteriorly; coxal plates variously with posterodistal cusps; coxal plate 1 not markedly bent forwards; coxal plates 5 and 6 posterolobate. Coxal gills medium, sac-like, lacking on pereopod 7. Pereopods 1 and 2 (gnathopods) typically subsimilar, weak to srong, or unlike and slightly sexually dimorphic, often powerfully subchelate; propodal palms with triangular median tooth; meral posterodistal tooth lacking or not; carpus usually elongate (less often short), lobe shallow (less often deep). Pereopods 5–7 subequal in size and form. Epimeral plates 2 and 3 variable, hind corner usually produced. Uropod 1 with distolateral peduncular spine-like seta. Telson keeled proximally, apex rounded. Distribution. Marine waters of arctic and boreal parts of Northern ...