Parvochelus Brix & Kihara 2015

• Main Author: Golovan, Olga A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Metazoa; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Desmosomatidae; Parvochelus; Pacific; Seta; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5661878; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5661878

Genus Parvochelus Brix & Kihara, 2015 Parvochelus Brix & Kihara in Brix et al., 2015: 51. Type species. Parvochelus russus Brix & Kihara, 2015, by original designation. Diagnosis (modified after Brix & Kihara 2015). Body length 3.3 –4.0 pereonite 2 width, covered with cuticular folds. Pereopod I with carpo-propodo-chela, carpus length 2.3–3.7 width, longer than propodus, with subparallel sides, not or only slightly produced at basis of claw-seta, laterally of claw-seta with one long slender seta, seta length at least 0.5 claw-seta length. Pereopods II–VII slender (pereopods II–IV carpus length about 7.0–8.0 width), setal rows with up to 5 setae. Pleotelson without posterolateral spines, lateral margins serrated, posterior margin framed by cuticular membrane. Female pleopod II and male pleopod I covering ventral side of pleotelson including anus, male pleopod I with convex lateral sides, distolateral lobes not developed. Uropod uniramous. Composition. Parvochelus russus Brix & Kihara, 2015; P. serricaudis sp. nov. Published as part of Golovan, Olga A., 2015, Description of two ubiquitous species of Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the Northwest Pacific Basin east of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, pp. 201-224 in Zootaxa 4039 (2) on page 211, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4039.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/232836