Pseudocheles Chace & Brown 1978

• Main Author: Anker, Arthur
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Bresiliidae; Pseudocheles; Pacific; Seta; North West Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5258263; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5258263

Key to the species of Pseudocheles Chace & Brown, 1978 1a. Antennal tooth very strong, fifth pleuron with posterior margin unarmed [Indo-West Pacific: Australia, 1–15 m]. P. enigma Chace & Brown, 1978 1b. Antennal tooth absent or minute; fifth pleuron with posterior margin armed with acute, ventroposteriorly directed tooth. 2 2a. Carpus of third, fourth and fifth pereiopod without stout spiniform setae on ventrolateral surface [Indo-West Pacific: Indonesia, ~ 10 m]. P. neutra De Grave & Moosa, 2004 2b. Carpus of third, fourth and fifth pereiopod each with stout spiniform seta on ventrolateral surface. 3 3a. Coxa of third and fourth pereiopod each with long, spine-like projection on mesial surface; basis of third pereiopod with smaller, spine-like projection on mesial surface; rostrum with 6–8 dorsal teeth, including one posterior to post-orbital margin [North-West Atlantic: Florida, Belize, 6–28 m. P. chacei Kensley, 1983 3b. Coxa of third and fourth pereiopod without spine-like projections on mesial surface; basis of third pereiopod without spine-like projection on mesial surface; rostrum with 5 dorsal teeth, all anterior to post-orbital margin [South-West Atlantic: Brazil, 68–71 m]. P. falsapinca sp. nov. Published as part of Anker, Arthur, 2012, The shrimp family Pseudochelidae De Grave & Moosa, 2004 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) in Brazil, with the description of a new species, pp. 79-87 in Zootaxa 3544 on page 85