Quasimelita

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Melitidae; Quasimelita; Murdoch; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5677653; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5677653

Key to species of genus Quasimelita 1. Eyes absent, antenna 1 as long as body length. Quasimelita abyssorum (Stephensen, 1944) - Eyes present, antenna 1 shorter than body length. 2 2. Pleon segments with dorsal carination. 3 - Pleon segments without dorsal carination. 5 3. Pleon segments 1–3 with one large central tooth and two small lateral teeth each. Quasimelita tolyza sp. nov. - Only pleon segments 2–3 with one central tooh each. 4 4. Anterior head lobe large, rounded, coxa 1 not serrated, with rounded anterior corner, basis of pereopod 7 linear. Quasimelita formosa (Murdoch, 1885) - Anterior head lobe truncated (Fig. 16 c), coxa 1 serrated, with pointed anterior corner, basis of pereopod 7 expanded, with rounded posterior wing. Quasimelita serraticoxae sp. nov. (part) 5. Anterior head lobe large, rounded, coxa 1 not serrated, with rounded anterior corner. 6 - Anterior head lobe truncated (Fig. 16 c), coxa 1 serrated, with pointed anterior corner. Quasimelita serraticoxae sp. nov. (part) 6. Outer ramous of uropod 3 is short, slightly longer than peduncle length. Quasimelita quadrispinosa (Vosseler, 1889) - Outer ramous of uropod 3 is long, 2.9–3.3 times as long as peduncle. Quasimelita jarettii sp. nov. Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2014, Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934, pp. 237-280 in Zootaxa 3869 (3) on page 269, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/251715