Mimoscina Pirlot 1933

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Mimoscinidae; Mimoscina; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5257974; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5257974

Key to the species of the genus Mimoscina 1. Pereopod 7; merus length twice carpus. M. gracilipes Pirlot, 1933 - Pereopod 7; merus similar in length to carpus (or only marginally longer), or carpus distinctly longer than merus. 2 2. Pereopod 7; merus as long as, or marginally longer than, carpus; propodus slightly inflated, distinctly broader than carpus in male, length 0.7x carpus. Uropod 1; outer margin of peduncle with relatively long setae. Restricted (?) to Antarctic waters. M. setosa (Barnard, 1930) - Pereopod 7; merus length 0.6–0.7x carpus; propodus slender, length 0.5x (female), 0.6x (male) carpus. Uropod 1; outer ramus with short or minute setae. Not found in Antarctic waters (?). M. galbraithae sp. nov. Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2012, A review of the hyperiidean amphipod families Mimonectidae and Proscinidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Scinoidea) 3533, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 3533 on page 58