Gnathostenetroides Amar 1957

• Main Authors: Malyutina, Marina V., L. Bruce, Niel
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Gnathostenetroididae; Gnathostenetroides; Galapagos; Pacific; Indian; Seta; Hooker; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5923008; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5923008

Genus Gnathostenetroides Amar, 1957 Gnathostenetroides Amar, 1957: 1; Hooker, 1985: 276. Maresia Fresi, 1973: 302 [preoccupied name]. Maresiella Fresi and Scipione, 1980: 313; Müller 1992: 205; Kensley and Schotte 2002: 1422 (new synonymy). Type species. Gnathostenetroides laodicense Amar, 1957, by monotypy. Included species (in addition to the new species here described): Gnathostenetroides aldabrana (Kensley and Schotte, 2002), comb. nov., Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles; Gnathostenetroides barringtoniana (Fresi, 1973), comb. nov., East Pacific, Galapagos Islands; Gnathostenetroides brevicornis (Carvacho 1983), comb. nov., East Pacific, Gulf of California, Mexico; Gnathostenetroides indica (Müller, 1992), comb. nov., Indian Ocean, Reunion Island; Gnathostenetroides laodicense Amar, 1957 (type species), Mediterranean Sea, Syria; Gnathostenetroides polynesica (Müller, 1992), comb. nov., Society Islands, French Polynesia; Gnathostenetroides pugio Hooker, 1985, North Atlantic, Florida Middlegrounds; Gnathostenetroides samariensis (Müller, 1992), comb. nov., Caribbean Colombia, Santa Marta (Table 1, Fig.1) Diagnosis: Body elongate, length 4.0–5.5 width. Cephalon subequal in width and length to pleotelson, rostrum strong, slightly concave anteriorly. Eyes dorsolateral, with 3 to 8 ommatidia. Antennula about 0.2 of body length, with 4–5 articles, straight, directed anteriorly, gradually narrowing distally. Antenna more than half body length, article 3 scale slender, as long as lateral margin of article 4; flagellum subequal in length to article 6. Mandible molar process subcylindrical, distally serrated, palp article 1 with 2 long distal setae. Pereopod 1 about twice longer and more robust than pereopods 2–7 which similar in length to each other. Pereopod 1 propodus with band of elongate mesial setae, ventral margin strongly setose, anterior margin nearly straight, bearing robust distoventral seta and row of oblique pectinate setae, which different in males and females; dactylus subequal in length to anterior width of ...